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Can trade work for workers?
20-Apr-2021 Foreign Affairs
Helping left-behind regions should be a core goal of Biden’s administration. The damage has been done, and free trade isn’t going anywhere.
How Indonesia plans to benefit from EFTA trade deal
20-Apr-2021 The Jakarta Post
The House of Representatives has recently approved a draft trade deal with the four-member EFTA that is expected to facilitate foreign investment and liberalize trade in goods and services, particularly commodities such as palm oil and raw metals.
RCEP faces challenges as comprehensive China-US competition takes shape: experts at Boao forum
20-Apr-2021 Global Times
Professor at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, cautioned that geopolitics now have "too much influence" on world trade, which could pose "great challenges" to the further implementation of the trade deal.
EU-ACP "Post-Cotonou" agreement (inialled text, Apr. 2021)
19-Apr-2021 European Commission
Energy Charter Treaty strikes again as Uniper sues Netherlands over coal phase-out
19-Apr-2021 Euractiv
German energy company Uniper has confirmed its intention to sue the Dutch government over the country’s planned coal phase-out.
Oil companies don’t deserve reparations for fossil fuel bans. They’ll still want them
19-Apr-2021 The Guardian
Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight.
India-EU Porto summit to see progress on FTA
19-Apr-2021 The Economic Times
The India-EU Summit in Porto early next month could see progress on a free trade agreement and treaties on investment protection and geographical indications.
NAFTA-investor lawsuits cost Canada at least $376 million: report
16-Apr-2021 iPolitics
NAFTA-investor lawsuits have cost Canadian taxpayers more than $376 million over the last 25 years, and could cost even more in the years ahead.
Bilateral trade with Southeast Asia explored
16-Apr-2021 The Western Producer
Canada continues to pursue a multi-lateral free trade agreement with Southeast Asian nations, and those involved with negotiations say bilateral deals in the region could lead to larger pacts.
Twenty years ago rabble.ca helped kill a free trade deal for the Americas
15-Apr-2021 Rabble.ca
20,000 civil society activists, trade unionists and environmentalists from throughout the Americas descended on Quebec City, where an alternative peoples’ summit was held.
Iran to ink free trade agreement with Pakistan: envoy
15-Apr-2021 Dawn
Efforts were initiated to sign a free trade agreement between Iran and Pakistan, Iranian Consul General in Peshawar Hamid Reza Ghomi said.
A tale of two free trade negotiations
15-Apr-2021 Newsroom
Despite a significant head start, a conclusion to the EU trade talks with New Zealand seems some way off while the UK is trumpeting its own progress.
The rise and demise of NAFTA Chapter 11
15-Apr-2021 CCPA
The removal of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the renegotiated NAFTA was a critical victory but Canada, the US and Mexico continue to be enmeshed in an extensive web of bilateral and regional accords containing ISDS.
Growing trade ties bind India to Africa’s future
14-Apr-2021 MENAFN
India has stepped up its global ambitions and foreign policy re-engagement with African countries in recent years. India is now the third largest export destination and the fifth largest investor on the continent.
Pathfinder Minerals estimates $621m hit from Mozambique title dispute
14-Apr-2021 Stock Market Wire
Mining group Pathfinder Minerals said a dispute over the ownership of a mining title in Mozambique could see it incur estimated losses of more than $621.3 million.
AfCFTA: concern over dumping mounts as trade deficit widens
14-Apr-2021 Vanguard News Nigeria
The fears that Nigeria might become a dumping ground for manufactured goods, especially with the advent of the AfCFTA, has heightened as Nigeria’s Trade in Goods Statistics show rising deficit in manufactured goods trade.
Northern gatemen and geopolitics of AfCFTA
14-Apr-2021 Benjamin Watch
AfCFTA has materialized at a time when globalization is being used to hide all sorts of ambitions including the second empire and colonialism. AfCFTA is not just about the economy and markets, it is also a political setup from the African Union and African Development Bank.
Togo to sign economic partnership agreement with the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise
14-Apr-2021 Togo First
Togo and the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise are to sign an economic and technical partnership agreement, under which the West African nation will benefit from Singapore’s experience to develop its economy.
Hopes for speedy trade deal with Britain unlikely: Kiwi exporters
14-Apr-2021 Stuff
New Zealand is being offered an improved market access arrangement, after the last one was ‘’pretty low-ball,’’ but any trade deal seemed likely to be months away, say Kiwi exporters.
India, Japan plan virtual biz meet to bolster trade, investments
14-Apr-2021 The Hindu
New Delhi is keen on a review of the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) to improve market access for Indian goods.