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Singapore and EU sign digital trade pact, deepening cooperation amid global uncertainties
10-May-2025 The Straits Times
Singapore and the European Union inked a digital trade agreement designed to provide greater clarity and legal certainty for businesses on both sides to transact online more seamlessly.
Netherlands urges review of EU-Israel trade deal over ‘catastrophic’ Gaza aid block
10-May-2025 The Guardian
Foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp tells top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas he believes Israel is in breach of rights obligations linked to trade agreement.
What is in the UK-US tariff deal?
10-May-2025 BBC
It is only the bare bones of a narrow agreement, there will be months of negotiations and legal paperwork to follow.
Türkiye, UK to begin free trade agreement renewal talks in July: Trade Minister
10-May-2025 Türkiye Today
The first round of negotiations to modernize the free trade agreement between Türkiye and the United Kingdom is scheduled to begin in July, Türkiye’s Trade Minister Omer Bolat announced.
Russia, China to sign new investment protection agreement
10-May-2025 TASS
The new agreement after its signing will replace a similar one that was enforced in 2006.
Malaysia continues GCC trade talks that began in 2011
10-May-2025 AGBI
Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has said that talks on closing a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council are continuing, 14 years after they first began.
New German Chancellor wants EU-Mercosur deal expedited
10-May-2025 MercoPress
Germany’s newly appointed Chancellor Friedrich Merz supported the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, despite France’s reservations due to environmental concerns.
EU accelerating free trade talks with Asia: trade chief
9-May-2025 The Daily Star
The European Union is speeding up free trade negotiations with key Asian countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and India, in response to the heavy tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
US declines to engage with ASEAN as a group on tariffs
9-May-2025 The Sun
The United States has chosen to avoid tariff negotiations with ASEAN as a unified group, preferring instead to engage in bilateral talks with individual member countries, according to Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry.
New template for trade deals: Govt to focus on tariffs, non-tariff barriers to clinch early agreements
7-May-2025 Mint
In a major strategic shift, India is moving away from negotiating full-fledged free trade agreements and instead opting for short-term, limited-scope trade deals with several countries.
A trade deal with the US could spell disaster for the UK
7-May-2025 PoliticsHome
As the spectre of Donald Trump’s tariffs looms over British exports, Labour confronts a stark choice: in its mission to secure tariff relief, what is the government willing to surrender?
Farmers protest UK trade deal saying it’s a threat to agriculture and MSMEs
7-May-2025 The Hindu
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, allied unions allege pact enables ‘economic imperialism’, bypasses Parliamentary scrutiny, and endangers national interests.
What’s in the UK-India trade deal?
7-May-2025 Reuters
Britain and India clinched a long-coveted free trade pact after tariff turmoil sparked by US President Donald Trump forced the two sides to hasten efforts to increase their trade in whisky, cars and food.
India clinches free trade deal with UK
7-May-2025 Hindustan Times
India and the UK on Tuesday clinched a free trade agreement that will boost Indian exports of textiles, leather and engineering goods and cut levies on British whisky, automobiles and medical devices.
US eyes de-escalation as trade talks with China set for weekend
7-May-2025 Kyodo
The United States and China will hold talks to de-escalate trade tensions, in the first known high-level in-person contact between representatives of the world’s two largest economies since President Donald Trump unleashed hefty tariffs on imports.
Trump tells Carney CUSMA is ’good deal for everybody’ but leaves door open for termination
7-May-2025 Financial Post
Le premier ministre canadien et le président américain ont ouvert la porte à une renégociation rapide de l’Accord Canada–États-Unis–Mexique.
Egypt approves investment promotion agreement with Saudi Arabia
7-May-2025 Middle East Monitor
The Egyptian parliament approved an agreement on the promotion and protection of mutual investments signed between Egypt and Saudi Arabia last October, Gulf Online reported.
Raw materials and resource-shackling under the EU’s FTA texts
6-May-2025 Third World Network
In the area of energy and raw materials, the EU comes up with regressive and restrictive text proposals for its free trade agreement with India (also Tunisia, Vietnam, Mexico) which are directly contradictory to its own conduct and regulations
Singapore-Pacific Alliance free trade agreement enters into force for Republic, Chile and Peru
6-May-2025 The Straits Times
A free trade agreement has entered into force for Singapore, Chile and Peru, three of the five partner countries in the Pacific Alliance-Singapore FTA.
UK-India treaty with ‘corporate courts’ shows a government “at odds with the times”, campaigners say
6-May-2025 Global Justice Now
Campaigners warn new deal could pose threats to climate action and medicine prices; claims of hypocrisy after UK withdrew from a similar deal last year.