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10-Apr-2024
Mint
Talks between India and South American trade bloc Mercosur have been put on the back burner with both sides focused on concluding their long-pending free-trade agreements with other regions.
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10-Apr-2024
Euronews
In a decisive committee vote, MEPs have supported the European Union’s exit from the Energy Charter Treaty over concerns its global investor-state dispute settlement system has been weaponised to sue governments over climate policy.
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9-Apr-2024
bilaterals.org
In the turbulent waters of the digital economy, where technological innovation is outpacing regulatory frameworks, the leaked African Continental Free Trade Area protocol on digital trade raises deep concerns.
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9-Apr-2024
Mining.com
Europe’s Commissioner for Energy said she had been in conversations with Australia’s Resources Minister for an agreement on critical minerals, and that there would be more news “soon.”
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9-Apr-2024
Business Standard
India’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the commerce ministry to examine the model text of the bilateral investment treaty and suggest modifications to further improve the ease of doing business.
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9-Apr-2024
Mint
The eighth round of negotiations for the India-European Union free trade agreement are slated to start next month, with India making changes to its negotiating team to speed up the process.
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9-Apr-2024
Financial Express
The negotiations between the two countries started way back in 2017 and had to be paused when the Covid-19 pandemic literally brought to a standstill.
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8-Apr-2024
The East African
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to significantly boost intra-Africa trade when fully implemented, but small businesses in East Africa are not happy about it, as it may not bode well for them.
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8-Apr-2024
EconomyNext
Sri Lanka has begun implementing a free trade agreement with Singapore as part of efforts to improve market access, diversify market and draw investments, the island’s top trade negotiator said.
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8-Apr-2024
Mint
Negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and Oman have concluded, and it’s likely to be signed after the formation of a new central government in the coming months, two people aware of the matter said.
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8-Apr-2024
Daily Sun
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira welcomed Bangladesh’s interest in reaching a MERCOSUR-Bangladesh Preferential Trade Agreement during a meeting with Bangladeshi foreign ministry officials in Dhaka.
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8-Apr-2024
Spotmedia
Romania has placed a lien on over 80% of the shareholding held by Gabriel Resources in Roșia Montană Gold Corporation to recover its $10 million arbitration costs incurred over a 9-year process in Washington.
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8-Apr-2024
CDR
The subject of the arbitration is given as ‘transportation fare collection services’, and invokes the 2001 bilateral investment treaty between Turkey/Türkiye and Yugoslavia as the basis for the claim.
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5-Apr-2024
Myanmar Now
A panel has been formed in Singapore to hear Telenor’s claims for compensation from Myanmar over money lost in its controversial Myanmar exit.
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5-Apr-2024
Apbrebes
Indonesia reiterated its position not to accede to the UPOV 1991 to ensure policy space to protect smallholder farmers’ seed systems and plant genetic resources.
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5-Apr-2024
The News
The caretaker government had ratified the draft of FTA, including the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
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4-Apr-2024
Sky News
Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell says he and his European counterpart are both committed to “having another go” at a Free Trade Agreement.
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4-Apr-2024
Le Monde Diplomatique
International investment agreements enable corporations to sue foreign governments for loss of profits. The sums they demand can be so huge that even the threat of a claim is enough to make governments cave in.
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4-Apr-2024
The Times of India
Switzerland pursues a new bilateral investment treaty with India post EFTA deal, addressing model treaty concerns.India remains reluctant on concessions, focusing on market.
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4-Apr-2024
The Business Post
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh said Bangladesh and China have exchanged the feasibility study reports on free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries last week, which he sees as a major development in Dhaka-Beijing economic and trade cooperation.