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6-Sep-2019
Inquirer.Net
Japan imposed export restrictions on three key chemical materials upon which South Korea is highly dependent for the production of semiconductors. With other actions, that were viewed by South Korea as a “declaration of economic war”.
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5-Sep-2019
Euractiv
It took 20 years for the EU and Mercosur to sign a trade agreement. “We don’t want to wait that much,” says the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the EU, urging the European Commission to drop its “bureaucratic matrix” thinking.
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4-Sep-2019
Euractiv
Critics say the Energy Charter provides excessive legal protection for oil and gas companies, which can claim uncapped reparations from governments who frustrate investments in fossil fuel projects.
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4-Sep-2019
Fresh Plaza
The expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement took effect, eliminating or reducing tariffs on the import into Israel of a wide range of foods from Canada.
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4-Sep-2019
Sydney Morning Herald
A key demand from the EU in the negotiation of a new free trade agreement will be that Australia ditches both its 5 per cent duty on imported European cars and the luxury car tax.
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4-Sep-2019
BNE Intellinews
The audit company claims its reports used in the lawsuits launched by companies controlled by Moldovan businessman Anatol Stati were based on “ knowingly false representations by Stati to KPMG”
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4-Sep-2019
Reuters
Democrats’ key concerns are labor standards, prescription drug prices, environmental protections and concrete enforcement mechanisms.
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4-Sep-2019
Xinhua
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said.
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3-Sep-2019
La Via Campesina
We see the revision of NAFTA – rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) – as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live.
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3-Sep-2019
The Guardian
The European Union wants Australia’s Paris climate commitments enshrined in new FTA.
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3-Sep-2019
Jerusalem Post
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries.
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3-Sep-2019
Via Campesina
La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to not be misled by the smokescreen of a ‘weakening WTO’ and be aware of the new age mega and bilateral free trade agreements are equally if not more harmful.
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3-Sep-2019
Open Democracy
Boris Johnson is promising new legislation to ’help the NHS’. But the danger is it will just gift wrap it for US corporations. Campaigners are uniting to say #HandsOffOurNHS and to call on MPs to really protect it.
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3-Sep-2019
Yahoo
A World Bank arbitration panel lowered an initial $8.7 billion award to US oil company ConocoPhillips as compensation for Venezuela’s 2007 expropriation of its assets to $8.5 billion.
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3-Sep-2019
CTV
Quebec dairy farmers continue to struggle as international trade agreements have hit their bottom line hard.
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3-Sep-2019
The Economic Times
For defence minister Rajnath Singh, the immediate tasks at hand include blocking Korean funds from flowing into Pakistan.
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3-Sep-2019
Korea Herald
South Korea will hold a third round of free trade talks with Malaysia this week with the aim of striking a trade deal before November, Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday.
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3-Sep-2019
The Strais Times
Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that at this point, the RCEP has gone beyond an economic agreement and is a strategic signal to the world’s economy on what countries in this part of the world believe in.
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2-Sep-2019
Korea Joongang Daily
The free trade agreement with Britain should be completed before the country’s scheduled exit from the European Union, said Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
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30-Aug-2019
South Centre
The fact that private arbitral tribunals are increasingly interpreting intellectual property provisionsraises complex issues.