23-Apr-2019
Business Standard
Senior officials of the 16-member RCEP group will hold meetings in Bangkok from May 24 to iron out issues pertaining to the goods and services sector.
22-Apr-2019
Nikkei Asian Review
Latest trade figures show that the trade imbalance persists, #US had a $6.67 billion goods trade deficit with Japan. So the tariff reductions under a bilateral trade pact will be kept to levels set by the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
22-Apr-2019
Business Recorder
Pakistan government is reportedly in talks with the Turkish government and M/s Karkey for an out-of-court settlement to avert attachment of Pakistan’s properties in Europe
19-Apr-2019
New York Times
A government report has concluded that the Trump administration’s revised North American trade agreement would offer modest benefits to the economy, challenging the president’s claims that the accord would make far-reaching changes.
18-Apr-2019
European Council
As agreed by the European Council
18-Apr-2019
New Security Beat
Landless, subsistence, and small-scale farmers bear the brunt of the influx of competitive crops and price shocks that came with trade liberalization through CAFTA.
18-Apr-2019
Common Dreams
NAFTA 2.0 is not about feeding people or doing right by American farmers or Canadian farmers or Mexican farmers—it is about furthering corporate profit.
18-Apr-2019
International The News
Pakistan will not ink the FTA with Iran, rather it will first prefer to make Preferential Trade agreement (PTA), which is already effective since long and giving the required dividends.
18-Apr-2019
Business Korea
South Korea and the Philippines agreed to conclude a free trade agreement in November at the latest.
18-Apr-2019
New Straits Times
Malaysia may continue to suspend FTA talks with the EU and EFTA until the issue of unfair and discriminatory practices against palm oil is resolved.
17-Apr-2019
Social Europe
The European Union’s disproportionate pressure for trade liberalisation risks exacerbating political strains in the last democracy of northern Africa.
17-Apr-2019
Washington Post
"If there were to be any weakening of the Good Friday accords, there would be no chance whatsoever, a nonstarter, for a US-U.K. trade agreement," said US House Speaker
17-Apr-2019
Down to Earth
African dairy farmers protested outside the European Union HQ to demand that they don’t over-produce milk and then flood African markets.
