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BILATERALS.ORG WEEKLY   18-24 NOV 2025
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NEWS FROM THE MOVEMENTS
Leah Sullivan | 21-Nov-2025

NGOs call on Government to leave Energy Charter Treaty as new claim emerges

Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government’s refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.
ISDS impacts | 20-Nov-2025

Argentina in the maze of international arbitration: a record number of arbitration claims and new concessions for investors

For over 20 years, Argentina had the world’s highest number of investor claims before international arbitration tribunals. It also has the highest number of bilateral investment treaties in force in Latin America and the Caribbean.
EDRi | 20-Nov-2025

EU adopts Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore despite warnings: a setback for digital rights and democratic oversight

This decision weakens the Union’s capacity to safeguard privacy, data protection, and accountability over software systems, at a time when deregulation pressures are increasing across Europe.
Global Justice Now | 20-Nov-2025

UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’

The UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed.
Global Justice Now | 18-Nov-2025

‘COP30 must declare an end to ISDS’, delegates told

Campaigners launched a new initiative to phase out ‘corporate courts’ which are now a “major impediment to climate action.”
NEGOTIATIONS
Business Post | 23-Nov-2025

Google, AfCFTA to train 7,500 African SMEs on AI, digital trade skills

Google and theAfCFTA Secretariat have launched the AfCFTA Digital Inclusion & Entrepreneurship Programme that will train thousands of SMEs across Nigeria and the African continent on critical AI and digital skills to expand their businesses and trade continent-wide.
CTV News | 23-Nov-2025

‘Gas-for-wine’: South Africa seeks deal to boost trade, investment with Canada

s Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Johannesburg for the G20 summit, Canada and South Africa are talking about a deal to boost bilateral trade and investment that could see more South African wine on Canadian shelves in exchange for gas exports.
Yabiladi | 23-Nov-2025

Morocco–EU deal : Labeling of Sahara products fails to convince MEPs

The European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has reignited debate over the labeling of agricultural products from Western Sahara, a contentious issue in the recent Morocco-EU agricultural agreement.
Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security | 22-Nov-2025

EU and South Africa sign first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP)

the EU and South Africa signed the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP), building on the EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership and the Economic Partnership Agreement.
TradingView | 21-Nov-2025

EU explores investment in Australian resources as trade talks set to restart

The European Union is weighing new ways to invest directly in Australia’s critical resources sector, with Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič saying Brussels is exploring options ranging from equity stakes to long-term offtake agreements and joint investments.
Fortune India | 21-Nov-2025

India, Israel sign terms of reference for free trade agreement: Piyush Goyal

In his ongoing three-day visit to Israel, Goyal will meet leaders from major Israeli companies in agriculture, desalination and waste water treatment, cyber security, smart mobility, and infrastructure among others, and interact with prominent Israeli investors.
Dawn | 21-Nov-2025

New bilateral investment treaty with Australia being finalised

Pakistan and Australia agreed to continue talks to finalise a new bilateral investment treaty to foster and expand opportunities in key sectors including energy, mining, technology, agriculture and industrial development.
European Commission | 21-Nov-2025

EU launches Trade and Investment Dialogue with Trans-Pacific bloc

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič launched, together with his twelve counterparts, the first EU-CPTPP Trade and Investment Dialogue.
The Korea Times | 21-Nov-2025

Lone Star rejects ICSID annulment, eyes new arbitration

Lone Star said it does not accept this week’s annulment ruling by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, signaling that it could pursue a new round of arbitration against the Korean government.
The Financial Express | 21-Nov-2025

Bangladesh begins gap analysis to fit in RCEP trade standards

Bangladesh begins a critical gap analysis of its economic strengths for aligning its trade policies with protocols of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for joining the world’s largest trade bloc.
Arabian Business | 21-Nov-2025

UAE advances CEPA talks with EU, Japan, Nigeria and Mercosur as trade hits $727bn

UAE advances CEPA talks with the EU, Japan, Nigeria and Mercosur as non-oil trade reaches $727bn in first nine months of 2025.
CBC | 21-Nov-2025

Carney signs UAE investment pact, launches trade talks during Abu Dhabi visit

Carney announced the investment pact following a meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two also launched talks for a full trade deal, aimed at an eventual comprehensive economic partnership agreement.
Financial Express | 20-Nov-2025

India, Israel to expedite FTA plan, boost economic ties

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Israel for a review of the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides.
Euractiv | 20-Nov-2025

MEPs reject push to fast-track vote on EU–Mercosur safeguards

A bid by the centre-right European People’s Party to fast-track additional safeguards linked to the EU-Mercosur trade deal collapsed during a meeting of political group chairs, according to multiple parliamentary officials.
Peace Brigades International | 20-Nov-2025

Canada to pursue free trade negotiations with the Philippines as land and environmental defenders continue to be killed

On November 5, 2025, the Canadian government tabled a Notice of Intent to enter into free trade negotiations with the Philippines.
Euronews | 20-Nov-2025

European Parliament blocks MEPs’ attempt to stall Mercosur deal

A draft resolution opposing the Mercosur trade agreement has been blocked on procedural grounds, sparking parliamentarians’ anger and putting the deal’s ratification process off to a tense start.
The Left in the European Parliament | 19-Nov-2025

The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: gambling away our digital sovereignty

Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
Yonhap | 19-Nov-2025

S. Korea wins annulment in investor dispute over Lone Star’s sale of local bank

An international arbitration body for investor–state dispute settlement has ruled in favor of South Korea in its challenge to the award for private equity fund Lone Star over its 2012 sale of a local bank.
Politico | 19-Nov-2025

The tech taxes at the heart of Trump’s tariff war

Foreign countries want to take a cut of the proceeds from digital services provided by American companies, and passed their own laws to do so... and now the US is using trade negotiations to pressure those governments into rolling them back.
New Zealand Government | 18-Nov-2025

Bilateral Investment Treaty with UAE now in force - Business Council created

This Treaty will help promote and facilitate investment, by providing investors in New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates with clear rules, Trade and Investment Minister Todd McClay says.
TRT | 18-Nov-2025

India signs US gas deal amid trade tensions, Russian oil fallout

The agreement for 2.2 million tonnes per annum aims to diversify India’s energy imports, even as US tariffs and Russian oil restrictions continue to complicate bilateral relations.
Yahoo | 18-Nov-2025

EU to warn Lutnick against axpanding US steel tariff scope

European Union officials are concerned a US push to expand the list of EU products subject to higher steel and aluminum tariffs may run afoul of the spirit of the trade agreement they signed this summer.
Euractiv | 18-Nov-2025

Thai tuna industry pushes for tariff-free EU access amid trade talks

EU fishers warn Thailand still faces sustainability and human-rights concerns as FTA negotiations intensify.
KEY ISSUES
Luxembourg Times | 21-Nov-2025

Luxembourg eco-investors helped sink condemned energy treaty

Funds used fossil-fuel friendly tool to fight back when countries pulled renewable energy incentives, hurting their green investments.
Mining Weekly | 20-Nov-2025

Aris Mining ends Colombia arbitration with settlement

Gold miner Aris Mining has reached a settlement with Colombia to terminate a long-running investor–state arbitration case, marking the first agreement of its kind in the country and ending a dispute dating back to 2018.
Mongabay | 20-Nov-2025

Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action

Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres has called for reform of international arbitration tribunals, saying they’re “one of the greatest obstacles” to the energy transition and favor corporate interests over sovereignty.
Politico | 18-Nov-2025

EU Commission pledges to protect Belgium over Russian assets

Belgium fears that using the assets would leave it exposed to Russian legal action. This is a major concern for Belgium, which has a bilateral investment treaty with Russia, first signed in 1989.
 
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NOVEDADES DE LOS MOVIMIENTOS
Noticias Unsam | 22-Nov-2025

Conversatorio | El falso dilema entre proteccionismo y libre comercio

Conversatorio | El falso dilema entre proteccionismo y libre comercio
No al TTIP | 18-Nov-2025

Manifiesto contra el acuerdo comercial entre la UE y los países del MERCOSUR

En estas semanas, la Unión Europea está allanando el terreno para firmar el acuerdo comercial con los países del Mercosur (Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay) y otro acuerdo con México. Impedir el acuerdo comercial UE-MERCOSUR abre una oportunidad para cuestionar estructuralmente este sistema económico injusto y sacar la agricultura y la alimentación de la lógica de los mercados.
Ecologistas en Acción | 18-Nov-2025

Pedro Sánchez y Luis Planas reciben un baño de pesticidas en una protesta para denunciar el acuerdo comercial entre la UE y los países del Mercosur

El Toxic Trade Tour, una protesta itinerante por diversas ciudades europeas contra el acuerdo comercial UE-Mercosur, ha hecho hoy escala en Madrid. Desde finales del pasado mes de octubre y hasta finales de noviembre, una coalición de organizaciones sociales y ambientales europeas están llevando a cabo esta protesta por diversos países de la UE para denunciar este acuerdo entre la Unión Europea y los países del bloque del Mercosur.
Negociaciones
La Jornada | 22-Nov-2025

Sindicatos exigen proteger empleos en revisión del T-MEC

En la próxima revisión del T-MEC, México debe tomar medidas que defiendan las fuentes de trabajo, principalmente en el sector automotriz, incluso, si es necesario con sanciones a las empresas que trasladen “injustificadamente” segmentos de su producción a los Estados Unidos, planteó el Centro de Investigación Laboral y Asesoría Sindical (Cilas).
OEM | 22-Nov-2025

Líbano buscará tratado de libre comercio con México para atraer inversiones a Puebla

El Líbano buscará establecer un tratado de libre comercio con México para detonar nuevas inversiones en el estado de Puebla, donde existe una fuerte presencia de la comunidad libanesa, informó George El Jallad, embajador de ese país en territorio mexicano.
Diario Estrategia | 22-Nov-2025

Uruguay se suma al Tratado Transpacífico de libre comercio

Uruguay ha sido aceptado para incorporarse al Tratado Integral y Progresista de Asociación Transpacífico (CPTPP), según informó la Cancillería de Uruguay. El país recibió el visto bueno de Australia, Brunei, Canadá, Chile, Japón, Malasia, México, Nueva Zelanda, Perú, Singapur, Reino Unido y Vietnam.
Valenciafruits | 22-Nov-2025

Los países de la UE apoyan la cláusula de salvaguarda agrícola para el futuro acuerdo con Mercosur

El Consejo de la Unión Europea ha aprobado, sin introducir enmiendas, la propuesta de la Comisión Europea para establecer una cláusula de salvaguarda bilateral aplicable a los productos agrícolas incluidos en el acuerdo de asociación negociado entre la UE y Mercosur, así como en el futuro acuerdo comercial entre ambas partes.
Spanish Korea | 22-Nov-2025

Corea y Egipto impulsarán un Acuerdo de Asociación Económica Integral

El presidente Lee Jae Myung y el presidente egipcio Abdulfatah al-Sisi acordaron, el 20 de noviembre durante su cumbre bilateral, impulsar un Acuerdo de Asociación Económica Integral (CEPA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Pagina12 | 20-Nov-2025

Argentina negocia su subordinación con Estados Unidos

El acuerdo argentino con EE.UU. se cerró en tiempo récord, sin debate público, sin consulta a sectores afectados, sin análisis de impacto. Esta irresponsabilidad institucional contrasta radicalmente con los años de movilización y debate que precedieron al rechazo del ALCA. Se trata de un acuerdo que agrava la dependencia vulnerando normas institucionales, con efectos regresivos en las condiciones de vida de la población.
Euronews | 20-Nov-2025

Macron impulsa el bloqueo de Mercosur y busca a Italia para frenar el acuerdo de libre comercio

Macron renueva su oposición al acuerdo Mercosur para proteger a agricultores. Francia busca una minoría de bloqueo en la UE (necesita a Italia), mientras Bruselas presiona por firmar antes de fin de año. Alemania y España apoyan el pacto.
La Hora | 19-Nov-2025

Guatemala se adhiere al TLC con Corea, cinco años después del resto de Centroamérica

Los diputados ratificaron la pasada noche en el hemiciclo parlamentario la adhesión de la República de Guatemala al Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre la República de Corea y las Repúblicas de Centroamérica. Este país era el único en la región que estaba fuera del acuerdo comercial.
Delfino | 18-Nov-2025

Organizaciones acuerdan constituir la “Plataforma de Lucha contra el TLC con Israel”

Las organizaciones que participaron del “Encuentro por una Plataforma de Lucha Contra el TLC con Israel” el pasado 15 de noviembre de 2025, anunciaron haber acordado la constitución de la “Plataforma de Lucha contra el TLC con Israel”. El objetivo es desarrollar acciones en procura de que el TLC con Israel no sea aprobado en Costa Rica.
CUESTIONES CLAVES
Minuto60 | 19-Nov-2025

Colombia firmó acuerdo con Aris Mining y se salvó de millonaria multa

Se terminaron seis años de laudo arbitral entre Colombia y Aris Mining, antes Gran Colombia Gold, ante el CIADI del Banco Mundial, motivado en las inversiones que hizo la empresa para las minas de Segovia (Antioquia) y Marmato (Caldas) en el marco del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y Canadá.
 
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A signer: Non à la ZLECAf, oui à un commerce pour les peuples, pas pour les multinationales

Nous vous invitons à signer ici la déclaration d’organisations de la société civile africaines.

NOUVELLES DES MOUVEMENTS
Confédération paysanne | 20-Nov-2025

Accord UE-Mercosur : la Confédération paysanne se mobilise le 24 novembre devant le Parlement européen à Strasbourg

La Confédération paysanne d’Alsace, la Confédération paysanne nationale et ECVC*, la Coordination Européenne Via Campesina, appellent largement à se mobiliser, avec tracteurs, le 24 novembre à Strasbourg devant le Parlement européen.
Négociations
Les affaires | 23-Nov-2025

L’Afrique du Sud souhaite conclure un nouvel accord commercial avec le Canada

Alors que le premier ministre Mark Carney va se rendre à Johannesburg pour le Sommet du G20, le Canada et l’Afrique du Sud discutent d’un accord visant à dynamiser leurs échanges commerciaux et leurs investissements bilatéraux.
Yabiladi | 23-Nov-2025

Accord Maroc-UE : L’étiquetage des produits du Sahara ne convainc pas les eurodéputés

La majorité des groupes au Parlement européen ont critiqué, ce jeudi, la formule retenue pour l’étiquetage des produits agricoles originaires du Sahara occidental. Face à la complexité juridique des questions soulevées par les eurodéputés, la Commission européenne s’est engagée à apporter une réponse écrite.
Le Devoir | 21-Nov-2025

Carney signe un accord sur les investissements avec les Émirats arabes unis

Le premier ministre Mark Carney a signé un accord de protection des investissements avec les Émirats arabes unis. Les deux pays ont aussi entrepris des discussions au sujet d’un accord commercial complet.
Euronews | 20-Nov-2025

Le Parlement européen coupe court à la tentative des députés de bloquer l’accord du Mercosur

L’administration du Parlement européen a déclaré qu’un projet de résolution s’opposant à l’accord du Mercosur était irrecevable.
Yonhap | 19-Nov-2025

Affaire Lone Star : la Corée du Sud finit par remporter le procès

Le Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements a statué en faveur de la Corée du Sud qui a contesté une décision en faveur de la société de capital-investissement américaine Lone Star concernant la vente d’une banque locale en 2012.
Le Figaro | 18-Nov-2025

Mercosur : «Cela a-t-il un sens de transporter des carcasses bovines sur des milliers de kilomètres ?

Le projet d’accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et les pays d’Amérique latine menace notre agriculture dans sa transition alimentaire et environnementale, estime l’agricultrice Anne-Cécile Suzanne.
ENJEUX MAJEURS
Investing.com | 20-Nov-2025

Aris Mining résout l’arbitrage CIRDI avec la Colombie par un accord

Aris Mining Corporation a annoncé avoir conclu un accord avec la République de Colombie pour mettre fin à une procédure d’arbitrage international initiée en 2018.
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