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:: Across the board ::

This section contains news and analysis of sweeping developments that affect the overall push and pull towards FTAs and bilateral investment treaties. This means major trends relating to bilateralism, often with global consequences, and other cross-cutting issues. New developments arising from US politics, the WTO or South-South alliance-building, for instance, are often reported here as they tend to have systemic impacts.

last update: May 2012

D-8 preferential trade agreement targets $500 billion in intra-trade by 2030
21st century chronicle | 18-Jun-2025
Amb. Isiaka Imam, Secretary-General, D-8, Organisation for Economic Cooperation, says the organisation is focusing on achieving a target of 500 billion dollars in intra-trade among member countries by 2030.
: Nigeria , trade facilitation
Ni Trump ni tratados de libre comercio
desInformémonos | 18-Apr-2025
Con las medidas arancelarias extremas de Trump, muchos gobiernos pretenden hacer aparecer el régimen de “libre” comercio y los tratados comerciales como si fueran algo positivo.
: China , EU , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Maxime Combes : « Face à la guerre commerciale, au lieu de relocaliser, l’Europe signe des traités de libre-échange… »
Fakir | 18-Apr-2025
Déclaration de guerre économique de Donald Trump à la Chine et au reste du monde, les droits de douanes deviennent une nouvelle arme de la guerre commerciale. Il est urgent pour l’Europe de se protéger, de relocaliser.
: China , EU , US
Small countries sit at nexus of tariff trade-offs
Reuters | 16-Apr-2025
In response to Trump’s moves, Australian Prime Minister’s government is now trying to revive a free-trade agreement with the European Union and woo countries from Indonesia to India to the United Arab Emirates.
: Australia , EU , India , Singapore , UAE , US
NZ says trans-Pacific, EU nations can defend free trade
BSS News | 10-Apr-2025
New Zealand’s prime minister proposed a new alliance to battle global export restrictions, enlisting members of a 12-nation trans-Pacific free trading agreement and the European Union.
: CPTPP , EU , New Zealand
Libre-échange : la Nouvelle-Zélande propose une alliance avec les pays du Pacifique et l’UE
LCA News | 10-Apr-2025
Le premier ministre néo-zélandais a proposé jeudi une nouvelle alliance pour lutter contre les restrictions à l’exportation au niveau mondial, associant les membres d’un accord de libre-échange transpacifique de 12 pays et l’Union européenne.
: CPTPP , EU , New Zealand