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18-Feb-2019 Bangkok Post
Thailand seeks Indian support for new RCEP regional trade bloc
Thailand is looking for India’s support to help settle talks and conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the end of this year. -
15-Feb-2019 Global Justice Now
Q&A: Stop corporate courts
A Q&A to deal with tricky questions about corporate courts and our campaign against them. -
15-Feb-2019 Client Earth
Advocate General Bot in Opinion 1/17 on CETA
This critical analysis of the AG’s Opinion will quickly recall the background and implications of the case before commenting on the most controversial points of the AG’s reasoning. -
14-Feb-2019 Free Malaysia Today
Indonesia, Australia to sign trade deal in March
Indonesia is to sign a trade and investment partnership deal with Australia in March, Indonesia’s trade minister said. -
14-Feb-2019 SGGP Online
ASEAN – Hong Kong FTA likely to come into force in 2019
The ASEAN – Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is now in its final stage and is hoped to take effect within 2019. -
14-Feb-2019 Xinhua
Names of wines, cheeses hold back Australia-EU free trade deal
Progress on a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union has been interrupted by the names of cheeses and wines. -
14-Feb-2019 Scoop
Free Trade Agreement top of mind in EU meeting
A New Zealand-European Union Free Trade Agreement was top of mind in discussions between Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and the EU’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan. -
14-Feb-2019 Business Day
SA-UK post-Brexit deal just about finalised
SA’s negotiations with the UK to ensure that a trade agreement is in place in the event that it exits the EU without a deal is 99% complete, trade and industry director-general Lionel October said. -
14-Feb-2019 Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes
Nouvelle-Calédonie et Vanuatu dans un accord de libre-échange
Les gouvernements calédonien et vanuatais s’engagent dans un accord de libre-échange, facilitateur du développement des affaires entre les deux pays. -
14-Feb-2019 European Commission
Comoros and Samoa join trade and development agreements with the European Union
The island states Comoros and Samoa have joined the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and the group of countries from their respective regions. The EU now has 40 trade agreements in place with 72 countries. -
13-Feb-2019 Huffington Post
Liam Fox rushing through Brexit trade deals would mean bypassing democracy
Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these ’rollover’ deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote. -
13-Feb-2019 Euractiv
Cotonou successor: EU-Africa relations at the crossroads
Negotiators are hoping to break the back on talks for the successor to the Cotonou Agreement, which expires in May 2020, between the EU and 79 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). -
13-Feb-2019 WSRW
European Parliament disregards Court and adopts Morocco fish deal
European Parliament has voted in favour of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement that will be applied to the waters of occupied Western Sahara. -
13-Feb-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
China-backed coal projects raise heat in Pakistan
China-backed coal plants are raising environmental concerns locally. -
13-Feb-2019 European Parliament News
Parliament gives green light to EU-Singapore trade and investment protection deals
European Parliament endorsed the free trade and investment protection deals between EU and Singapore, serving as blueprint for further cooperation with Southeast Asia. -
13-Feb-2019 The Herald
Zim not yet ready for full AfCFTA
Zimbabwe should ramp up value addition and beneficiation of its products beforehand, says official. -
13-Feb-2019 Times of Israel
Israel and Iran both set to join Russia-led free trade zone
After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’. -
13-Feb-2019 The Nation
Asean credibility at stake if RCEP not concluded this year, forum hears
Concluding the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the biggest challenge during Thailand’s Asean chairmanship this year. -
12-Feb-2019 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
Corporate sector in China’s Belt & Road: Impact on people’s access to land and water
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa. -
12-Feb-2019 The Citizen
Investor-state dispute settlement in Tanzania
Tanzania has embarked on process of regulation of its foreign investment regime by enacting legislation, which exclude international arbitration.