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24-Mar-2023
The National
The British government’s investment minster has said the third round of talks that could eventually lead to a free trade agreement between the UK and the GCC have been completed successfully and a fourth session should be held in London later this year.
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23-Mar-2023
New bilaterals.org podcast is out!
It includes stories about the rise of trade in services and popular resistance; the EU-India FTA and its impact on Indian women; Kenyan health CSOs’ concerns about the Kenya-US trade deal: https://youtu.be/HHBbfjvjylY (in English with French and Spanish subtitles.)
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23-Mar-2023
The Monitor
Commitments to “inclusive” trade are meaningless if they support violations of international law.
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23-Mar-2023
Nikkei Asia
Indian and British negotiators will be seeking a landing zone on digital trade and investor protection as they hold another round of free trade talks in New Delhi.
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23-Mar-2023
Euractiv
A number of EU countries spoke out against reviving the EU-Mercosur trade deal during a meeting of agriculture ministers in Brussels on Monday 20 March. But with an agreement already hammered out, room for change is limited.
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23-Mar-2023
Friends of the Earth Europe
Documents leaked reveal that the EU-Mercosur deal’s proposed annex, supposedly intended to safeguard the environment, climate and human rights, does nothing to achieve this.
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23-Mar-2023
Friends of the Earth Europe
As leaked by Friends of the Earth Europe, Ecologistas en Acción, European Coordination Via Campesina, Collectif national Stop CETA-Mercosur, Aitec, PowerShift e.V. Germany, Handel Anders.
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22-Mar-2023
CTV
The so-called "sunset provision" reflects the lingering working-class distrust of globalization in the US that helped Donald Trump get elected president back in 2016.
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21-Mar-2023
MASIPAG
The country’s economic sovereignty that will supposedly provide a ground for the flourishing of local agriculture and production has been once again gnawed by global corporate interests.
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21-Mar-2023
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga believes IPEF provisions would cut across the rights, interests, duties and responsibilities of Indigenous Peoples throughout the region.
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21-Mar-2023
Reuters
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Britain to support its bid to join a major pan-Pacific free trade pact which London has also applied to enter.
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21-Mar-2023
Interfax
This new generation trade agreement focuses primarily on preventing the emergence of barriers in the future, as states in the world are increasingly regulating the digital sphere.
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21-Mar-2023
Euractiv
Agriculture Minister said he opposes the EU-Mercosur trade agreement during the Agriculture Council in Brussels on despite alleged industry pressure on the minister in charge of giving Austria’s final decision.
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20-Mar-2023
The Diplomat
Montevideo is pushing ahead with FTA talks with China – ignoring warnings from neighbors about possible legal and trade action if Uruguay negotiates outside the bloc.
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20-Mar-2023
The Telegraph
Groups from India and nearly 40 countries express concern about a leaked chapter from the proposed FTA that they say appears to represent ‘a wish list’ of the pharmaceutical industry.
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20-Mar-2023
South China Morning Post
‘Global Britain’ needs new friends and trading partners as the economic harm from Brexit becomes clear.
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20-Mar-2023
Arab News
The UAE and Georgia have agreed a new trade deal which will see the reduction of tariffs and the removal of other barriers as the two countries seek to boost economic ties.
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20-Mar-2023
Times of India
India has issued termination notices to 68 countries for Bilateral Investment Treaties with a request to renegotiate on the basis of the model agreement formulated in 2015.
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17-Mar-2023
The East African
The East African Community (EAC) wants the US government to make the rules governing access to their market more flexible under the planned renewal of the African Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa).
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17-Mar-2023
JDSupra
Investors from the United States, Mexico or Canada in the territory of one of the other two investment hosting states, who may have been adversely affected by the host government’s measures, need to act by the end of March 2023 to preserve NAFTA rights.
