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| BILATERALS.ORG WEEKLY |
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18-24 NOV 2025 |
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Call for signatures: We say no to AfCFTA – trade justice for people, not corporations!
Please consider signing the African civil society statement here.
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| NEWS FROM THE MOVEMENTS |
Leah Sullivan | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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ISDS impacts | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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EDRi | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Global Justice Now | 20-Nov-2025
The UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed.
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Global Justice Now | 18-Nov-2025
Campaigners launched a new initiative to phase out ‘corporate courts’ which are now a “major impediment to climate action.”
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NEGOTIATIONS
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Business Post | 23-Nov-2025
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.
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CTV News | 23-Nov-2025
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.
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Yabiladi | 23-Nov-2025
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.
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Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security | 22-Nov-2025
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.
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TradingView | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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Fortune India | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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Dawn | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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European Commission | 21-Nov-2025
EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič launched, together with his twelve counterparts, the first EU-CPTPP Trade and Investment Dialogue.
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The Korea Times | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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The Financial Express | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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Arabian Business | 21-Nov-2025
UAE advances CEPA talks with the EU, Japan, Nigeria and Mercosur as non-oil trade reaches $727bn in first nine months of 2025.
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CBC | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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Financial Express | 20-Nov-2025
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Israel for a review of the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides.
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Euractiv | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Peace Brigades International | 20-Nov-2025
On November 5, 2025, the Canadian government tabled a Notice of Intent to enter into free trade negotiations with the Philippines.
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Euronews | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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The Left in the European Parliament | 19-Nov-2025
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
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Yonhap | 19-Nov-2025
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.
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Politico | 19-Nov-2025
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.
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New Zealand Government | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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TRT | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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Yahoo | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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Euractiv | 18-Nov-2025
EU fishers warn Thailand still faces sustainability and human-rights concerns as FTA negotiations intensify.
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| KEY ISSUES
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Luxembourg Times | 21-Nov-2025
Funds used fossil-fuel friendly tool to fight back when countries pulled renewable energy incentives, hurting their green investments.
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Mining Weekly | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Mongabay | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Politico | 18-Nov-2025
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
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No al TTIP | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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Ecologistas en Acción | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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Negociaciones
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La Jornada | 22-Nov-2025
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).
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OEM | 22-Nov-2025
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.
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Diario Estrategia | 22-Nov-2025
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.
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Valenciafruits | 22-Nov-2025
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.
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Spanish Korea | 22-Nov-2025
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).
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Pagina12 | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Euronews | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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La Hora | 19-Nov-2025
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.
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Delfino | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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| CUESTIONES CLAVES
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Minuto60 | 19-Nov-2025
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.
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| NOUVELLES DES MOUVEMENTS |
Confédération paysanne | 20-Nov-2025
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.
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Négociations
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Les affaires | 23-Nov-2025
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.
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Yabiladi | 23-Nov-2025
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.
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Le Devoir | 21-Nov-2025
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.
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Euronews | 20-Nov-2025
L’administration du Parlement européen a déclaré qu’un projet de résolution s’opposant à l’accord du Mercosur était irrecevable.
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Yonhap | 19-Nov-2025
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.
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Le Figaro | 18-Nov-2025
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.
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| ENJEUX MAJEURS
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Investing.com | 20-Nov-2025
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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