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21-Jun-2019 Business Day
Will Africa’s free-trade area live up to the hype?
Africa is moving towards a more integrated, rules-based trade regime, but this is unlikely to transform the continent’s economic prospects -
21-Jun-2019 Euractiv
From ‘liberalise and patronise’ to a genuine sustainable trade strategy for the EU
The next European Commission must revamp its trade policy for the next five years to focus on sustainability, writes Jude Kirton-Darling. -
21-Jun-2019 France 24
ASEAN seeks conclusion of China-led trade deal this year: Thai PM
Southeast Asian leaders are eager to sign a sweeping China-led trade pact by the end of this year, Thailand’s prime minister said Friday, with further talks expected at a Bangkok summit on the world’s biggest commercial deal. -
21-Jun-2019 SME Times
Textiles industry delegation submits agenda to Irani
Delegation of FICCI Textiles Committee met Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister for Textiles and Women and Child Development recently and impressed upon her to launch a special mission for synthetic fibre and textiles value chain to make Indian industry competitive in the global trade which is predominantly done in the man-made fibre (MMF)-based items. -
21-Jun-2019 Japan Times
Japan and U.S. seek compromise on car and industrial-goods tariffs in working-level talks
Japan and the United States tried to find middle ground Thursday in working-level negotiations on lifting or cutting tariffs on vehicles and other industrial goods, as they sought to hammer out a bilateral trade agreement. -
20-Jun-2019 Japan Times
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer hopes for farm deal with Japan ’in next several weeks’
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressed hope Wednesday that the United States and Japan will soon reach a deal on agricultural tariff cuts as part of efforts to strike a bilateral trade agreement. -
20-Jun-2019 Romania Insider
EU allows Romania to pay EUR 200 mln compensation to Romanian-Swedish investors
The European Court of Justice on June 18 canceled a European Commission decision dating 2015, which established that Romania’s payment of compensation to Romanian-Swedish investors Ioan and Viorel Micula constituted illegal state aid. The European Commission also ordered the Romanian Government to recover the money already paid to the investors following an international court’s decision. -
20-Jun-2019 AFP
US-Japan trade deal progress likely in ’months’: US official
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer tells Congress that Japanese authorities ’understand completely’ the US desire for trade access to Japan and that efforts to reach a new trade agreement should bear fruit soon -
20-Jun-2019 GRAIN
Indian dairy under threat from new trade deals
Several new trade pacts that cater to transnational corporations, like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or the proposed deals pending with Europe, threaten to radically change the map and wipe out India’s small dairy producers. -
19-Jun-2019 Economics of Happiness
Connecting the dots: Insane trade and climate chaos
The connection between global trade and the climate crisis is clear. Much of global trade is unnecessary and wasteful - and yet, somehow, it continues to be profitable. -
19-Jun-2019 WAM
UAE, Hong Kong sign agreement on mutual promotion and protection of investments
The Ministry of Finance signed an agreement to encourage and protect investments between the UAE and the Hong Kong Government, as part of the ministry’s efforts to protect the nations investments abroad and to attract foreign investments. -
19-Jun-2019 Hindu Business Line
As palm oils get dumped, processors become packers
India’s edible oil security at stake as palm oil imports continue to rise unabated under the India-Malaysia FTA -
19-Jun-2019 ILO
New Dutch model BIT: negotiations to commence soon
The Dutch government has obtained the authorisation required to start renegotiations with eight non-EU countries on its new model bilateral investment treaty and conclude new BITs with two others. -
19-Jun-2019 The Nation
Thailand hopeful of RCEP deal despite scant progress
Thailand maintains the RCEP historic deal involving 16 economies can be finalised by November. -
19-Jun-2019 Global Agricultural Information Network
The impact of Thailand’s FTAs on US agri-food exports
US govt says Thailand’s FTAs - with China, Australia, NZ, Japan, India, ASEAN, Chile and Peru - have hurt US agri-food exports to Thailand. -
19-Jun-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
China wants Asia free trade pact without India
China is proposing a new Asian free trade agreement that excludes India, throwing a wrench into plans for the 16-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. -
18-Jun-2019 The Hindu Business Line
India, Kyrgyzstan have prepared 5 year roadmap to increase bilateral trade: PM Modi
India and Kyrgyztan have given the final shape to the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) and the bilateral investment treaty. -
18-Jun-2019 The Hindu Business Line
ASEAN, Japan, South Korea are misusing FTA: PPMAI
Process Plant and Machinery Association of India (PPMAI) stated do not include capital goods in RCEP. -
18-Jun-2019 S2B
340+ organisations call on the EU to immediately halt trade negotiations with Brazil
In an open letter, over 340 civil society organisations are demanding that the European Union immediately halt free trade agreement negotiations with the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) on the grounds of deteriorating human rights and environmental conditions in Brazil. -
17-Jun-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Hungary appeals Sodexo award with ICSID
Hungary has filed to annul an award of some EUR 73 million, before interest, to French food voucher company Sodexo, granted in an arbitration ruling by the World Bankʼs International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), state news agency MTI reported, citing case information on ICSIDʼs website.