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7-Jul-2025 Korea JoongAng Daily
Korea, Britain set to hold 5th round of follow-up negotiations to improve FTA
Korea and Britain commenced the fifth round of follow-up negotiations in Seoul to upgrade their FTA. The talks, running through the week, focus on enhancing trade by easing product origin regulations and introducing new rules involving supply chains, digital trade, services, investment, and government procurement. -
7-Jul-2025 Saudi Gazette
GCC – Japan negotiations make progress in sealing free trade agreement
The second round of negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Japan took place in Tokyo from June 30 to July 4. These talks focused on key provisions including goods, technical barriers, services (financial, telecommunications), movement of natural persons, intellectual property, dispute settlement, and trade facilitation. -
7-Jul-2025 bilaterals.org
Civil society groups say there is now even more reason to keep ISDS out of the RCEP
Civil society organisations from the 15 member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), call upon RCEP governments to continue to exclude Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the RCEP. -
4-Jul-2025 Sloboden Pecat
Croatia loses dispute, must pay 17,5 million euros to Societe Generale
Croatia has lost the multi-year arbitration dispute that the French bank Societe Generale was leading against it before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington. -
4-Jul-2025 Mining Watch
Over 280 Ecuadorian and international organizations speak out against the criminalization and violence against environmental defenders resisting Canadian mining
This criminalization and violence is occurring while Ecuador and Canada seek to ratify a free trade agreement that will only increase Canadian mining investment in the country. -
4-Jul-2025 Euractiv
EU’s neighbours strike Mercosur trade deal as Brussels awaits
The European Free Trade Association has clinched a trade agreement with Mercosur, while the EU’s own trade agreement with Mercosur has been delayed. -
4-Jul-2025 The Guardian
EU closing in on ‘framework’ trade deal with US to avoid Trump’s 50% tariffs
Diplomats and officials say bloc willing to accept 10% tariffs, but talks may go down to wire before Wednesday deadline. -
3-Jul-2025 European Coordination Via Campesina
United call by EU farmers’ and agricultural workers’ organisations to oppose the EU-Mercosur trade agreement
We, the undersigned organisations representing the diverse interests of European farmers and agricultural workers – COPA-COGECA, CEJA, ECVC and EFFAT – urge you to firmly oppose the conclusion of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement in its current form. -
3-Jul-2025 Bot Populi
Trump’s tariffs and the Big Tech takeover
How are countries in the Global Majority world responding to the US’s sudden demand for trade (re)negotiations in the digital economy? -
3-Jul-2025 AFTINET
Albanese revives push for Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement at G7 Summit
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed Australia’s ambition to finalise a long-delayed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. -
3-Jul-2025 Mining Weekly
Lupaka wins ICSID dispute against Peru over gold project
The dispute arose under the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Peru and concerned Lupaka’s investment in the Invicta gold project, located in the Andean highlands of Peru. -
3-Jul-2025 Al Jazeera
By sacrificing Palestine, Europe betrays itself
By refusing to take action on Israel, EU states are violating European and international law. -
3-Jul-2025 Politico
US and Vietnam reach initial tariff deal
President Donald Trump said he will reduce tariffs on Vietnam while Hanoi will open its market to US agricultural products and strengthen rules of origin standards to cut down on transshipment. -
2-Jul-2025 The standard
Why Kenya-UAE economic deal could be disastrous for Kenya’s health sector
On January 14, President William Ruto and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan signed the Kenya-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), touted as the UAE’s first such deal with a mainland African country. -
2-Jul-2025 OFSE
Assess_EU-Mercosur 2.0: Assessing the final agreement text of the Association Agreement between the EU and Mercosur
This report presents an updated assessment of the potential effects of the EU Mercosur Association Agreement in its final version, thereby paying particular attention to the new elements included in the agreement -
2-Jul-2025 Tert.am
The Republic of Armenia is put on notice of investment dispute for its actions against Samvel Karapetyan and Electrical Networks of Armenia
Samvel Karapetyan, a prominent businessman and a founder of Tashir Group, one of the largest group of companies in Eastern Europe, together with his family, sent a notice of investment dispute to the state officials of the Republic of Armenia. -
2-Jul-2025 AGBI
Trump tariffs may add fuel to UAE’s free trade push
The UAE’s pursuit of bilateral trade deals is more important than ever today as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to upend international commerce as we know it. -
2-Jul-2025 Reuters
EU wants upfront relief for key sectors in any US trade deal, sources say
The European Union wants immediate relief from tariffs in key sectors as part of any trade deal with the United States due by a July 9 deadline, but the bloc expects even a best-case deal to include a degree of asymmetry. -
2-Jul-2025 Reuters
Mercosur, EFTA blocs finalize free-trade agreement, say sources
South American bloc Mercosur has concluded talks for a free-trade agreement with a group of four European nations known as EFTA. -
2-Jul-2025 SOMO
Aftershock in Groningen
How Shell and ExxonMobil use arbitration to offload the costs of closing the Netherlands’ largest gas field.