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11-Dec-2019 Australian Institute of International Affairs
Upgrade the Australia-China FTA and share the prosperity of the Chinese fintech industry
Can the Australia-China trade deal facilitate Australian businesses and share the prosperity of Chinese FinTech industry? Answering this question requires looking into the chapters of investment, trade in services (especially financial service) and e-commerce. -
11-Dec-2019 Office of the US Trade Representative
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement text (2019)
As published by the Office of the US Trade Representative -
11-Dec-2019 Financial Express
RCEP did not adequately address India’s concerns, will review trade deal with ASEAN: Govt in Rajya Sabha
The RCEP did not "adequately" address India’s concerns over issues like non-tariff barriers to trade and opaqueness in subsidy regime in some countries, which forced it to back out from the trade deal, the Indian government informed. -
11-Dec-2019 The Hindu Business Line
‘Proposed India-EU FTA has to address labour, government procurement, sustainability issues’
India and the EU need to sort out complex issues such as government procurement, labour standards and sustainability as part of the bilateral free trade talks that have been stuck for more than half a decade. -
11-Dec-2019 Money Control
How India-Korea CEPA impacted domestic markets
Among the FTAs which have affected Indian domestic industry adversely, the India-Korea CEPA, signed in 2009, has been significant. -
11-Dec-2019 ZBC
Cabinet approves ratification of Comesa-EAC-Sadc free trade
Cabinet in Zimbabwe has approved the ratification of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). -
11-Dec-2019 The Ecologist
US banned climate from UK trade talks
The US has banned any mention of climate change in US-UK trade talks. -
11-Dec-2019 The Independent
I helped negotiate a trade deal with the US – I know they will demand an NHS sell off
Behind the bluster about “getting Brexit done” is an ambitious long term agenda: to realign our economy and our standards with the interests of American business. -
11-Dec-2019 DAWN
Tariff concessions under CPFTA from Jan 1
The Pakistan government has announced that tariff concessions on goods under the revised FTA with China will come into effect from Jan 1, 2020 after seven years of negotiations. -
10-Dec-2019 Sierra Club
Leading environmental groups urge Congress to oppose a pro-polluter NAFTA 2.0
The renegotiated NAFTA fails to meet the baseline standards for environmental and climate protection that the environmental community has consistently called for. -
10-Dec-2019 Modern Health Care
Biologic exclusivity provision stripped from revised USMCA deal
A provision of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade that would have guaranteed 10 years of market exclusivity for biologic drugs was removed. -
10-Dec-2019 Economic Times
Korean company starts arbitration against India
South Korean state owned power utility Kowepo has begun international arbitration proceedings against India in Singapore for not honouring a fuel supply commitment to its Maharashtra power plant. -
10-Dec-2019 Forbes
EU governments under pressure to quit Energy Charter Treaty
Climate campaigners are demanding that European Union countries pull out of the treaty unless they can negotiate an end to the pact’s investor-state dispute mechanism. -
10-Dec-2019 Reuters
US, Canadian officials converge on Mexico City to seal final changes to trade deal
Senior US and Canadian officials were set to fly to Mexico City to work on the final changes to a languishing North American trade pact. -
10-Dec-2019 The Print
‘With or without India’: 15 member countries decide to sign RCEP on 13 March
Nearly a month after India decided against joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the remaining 15 member countries Monday decided to sign the proposed free trade pact by 13 March. -
10-Dec-2019 The Hindu
Japan, Australia still hopeful of India’s rethink on RCEP
Despite India’s decision to walk out of the ASEAN-led 15-nation RCEP Free Trade Agreement last month, officials from India’s Indo-Pacific partners Australia and Japan are still discussing the issue in the hope that the government will rethink the decision. -
10-Dec-2019 The Japan Times
A less than satisfactory trade agreement
The Japanese government will also be worried about a sluggish economy and there will be no appetite for liberalization measures that impose pain on Japanese businesses. -
10-Dec-2019 The Hindu
India, US will conclude trade talks soon, says USISPF chief
Outstanding trade issues between India and the U.S. are moving towards resolution, and the first quarter of 2020 will see both countries conclude ongoing talks. -
10-Dec-2019 The Express Tribune
Pakistan, Qatar to sign trade pacts soon
Pakistan and Qatar have agreed in principle on a preferential trade agreement (PTA) and a free trade agreement (FTA) to enhance bilateral trade. The agreements will soon be signed after necessary formalities. -
9-Dec-2019 Times of India
Rejecting RCEP preserved India’s milk self-sufficiency’
The decision of keeping India out of the Regional Comprehension Economic Partnership (RCEP) has helped crores of farmers and prevented the likely shift shift of India from a self-sufficient milk producer to importer.