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15-Sep-2025 MercoPress
Mercosur-UAE FTA 80% through
According to Asunción’s Foreign Ministry, talks have progressed by 80% across 15 chapters, which include areas such as trade in goods, services, and rules of origin. -
15-Sep-2025 bilaterals.org
We say no to AfCFTA – trade justice for people, not corporations!
As civil society groups across Africa, trade unions, farmers’ associations, local communities, and environmental, feminist, and youth movements, we raise our voices in collective opposition to the African Continental Free Trade Area. -
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Cross-border data flows and free trade agreements
Provisions that restrict the regulation of cross-border data flows can limit the ability of States to implement domestic measures to protect the privacy and security of consumer data. -
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Source code disclosure and free trade agreements
Consumer rights are at risk when FTAs limit the ability of countries, their regulatory and oversight agencies, or appropriate third parties to monitor the software being imported into their territories. -
12-Sep-2025 Rethink Trade
Trump administration must choose between Big Tech and US sovereignty as industry seeks to weaponize trade policy to attack data security, privacy policies in other nations that US has also adopted
Congress and federal agencies and US states have adopted the same sorts of data security and privacy policies that Big Tech lobbyists are pushing President Trump to attack as the “illegal trade barriers.” -
12-Sep-2025 The American Prospect
The tech lobbying is coming from inside the house
Emails from the US trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook. -
12-Sep-2025 RBC-Ukraine
US ties trade deal with India to abandoning Russian oil
The US may strike a trade deal with India as soon as it stops buying oil from Russia, states US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. -
12-Sep-2025 The Hindu Business Line
India, EU committed to early conclusion of FTA: Goyal
India and the EU have reiterated their shared commitment towards early conclusion of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement, India Commerce Minister said that 60-65 per cent of the chapters had already been finalised. -
11-Sep-2025 Power Shift
Press conference invitation: More than 50 organisations from two continents launch campaign against toxic trade agreements between the EU and Latin America
On 16 September, more than 50 organisations and movements from at least 17 countries in Latin America and the European Union are launching a joint campaign against toxic free trade agreements between the two regions.
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11-Sep-2025 Asianet News
What the India-Israel investment treaty reveals about IMEC, geopolitics amid Gaza conflict
The agreement, aimed at offering stronger protections for investors, comes at a moment of shifting economic and geopolitical dynamics in the region. -
11-Sep-2025 Linkedin
EU measures too little too late
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union speech to finally address the situation in Palestine after weeks of silence. -
11-Sep-2025 La Via Campesina
“A new global trade framework based on food sovereignty is urgent and necessary” – La Via Campesina
On this International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements, La Via Campesina reaffirms its call for a new global trade framework rooted in food sovereignty. -
10-Sep-2025 Euractiv
Von der Leyen calls for partial suspension of EU-Israel trade deal
The European Commission will propose suspending the trade part of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, Ursula von der Leyen said, in a significant toughening of Brussels’ reaction to the war in Gaza. -
10-Sep-2025 Money Control
India speeds up FTAs with Peru, Chile, Mexico to offset US tariffs: Report
The three Latin American markets together could reportedly absorb around 20 percent of India’s exports currently shipped to the US, worth nearly $17 billion, without requiring major supply-chain changes. -
10-Sep-2025 The New Indian Express
’Complicit in genocide’: Two opposition parties condemn India signing trade agreement with Israel
Condemning Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s visit to India, the CPI(M) said it is "shameful" that the government is hosting him at a time when people are being massacred in Gaza every day. -
10-Sep-2025 RNZ
Fiji reluctant to join PACER Plus agreement
New Zealand is courting the Fijian government to join PACER Plus, a free trade and economic partnership agreement - but Fiji are holding out.
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10-Sep-2025 Yonhap
PM says S. Korea positively considers joining trans-Pacific trade pact
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok has said South Korea was positively considering joining a trans-Pacific trade pact, in a bid to bolster economic cooperation with Japan. -
9-Sep-2025 MercoPress
Uruguay paid US$64 million after Luxembourg account seizure not disclosed by previous government
The Uruguayan state had its bank accounts in Luxembourg frozen for several months due to non-payment of an arbitration award over the closure of national airline Pluna. -
9-Sep-2025 The Jakarta Post
China pushing ASEAN to seal trade pact upgrade
China is pushing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to sign an upgrade to their free trade agreement before the end of the year, Vice Commerce Minister Yan Dong said on Monday, as Beijing seeks to diversify its exports amid US tariffs. -
9-Sep-2025 Business Recorder
Pakistan, Thailand to boost trade ties under FTA
Pakistan and Thailand reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral trade by advancing talks on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and exploring cooperation in sectors such as information technology, services, and the Halal food industry.