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Australia, India to upgrade ECTA to a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
7-Mar-2023 The Hindu
Australian PM’s visit to India would provide a big boost to bilateral ties as both governments are in talks to upgrade the interim trade agreement to the level of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
The rise of trade in services: corporate manoeuvres and popular resistance
6-Mar-2023 bilaterals.org
The idea of ‘Trade in services’ is an artificial creation of the late 1970s and 1980s, designed to bring the social and public phenomenon of services under international ‘trade’ rules that would work for corporations.
China’s trade in goods with BRI countries doubled in past ten years
6-Mar-2023 China Economic Net
China aims to promote the signing of free trade agreements with more countries and accelerate the development of a free trade zone network covering the entire BRI-related region.
Iran, Pakistan negotiating free trade agreement
6-Mar-2023 Tehran Times
Iran and Pakistan are negotiating a free trade agreement with the aim of boosting their mutual trade to a targeted five billion dollars per year, an official with Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization said.
Senators Coons, Thune introduce legislation to kick-start trade negotiations with United Kingdom
6-Mar-2023 Chris Coons
The UNITED Act builds on the common values and interests of the US and UK to grant new presidential authority on a new trade agreement.
Türkiye, UAE sign free trade deal as ties improve
6-Mar-2023 Hurriyet Daily News
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates and Türkiye signed a free trade agreement, the Gulf country’s president said, the latest step in improving ties long strained by regional disputes.
EU, US working on deal to make EV minerals eligible for tax credits -EU official
6-Mar-2023 Reuters
The United States and European Union are working toward agreement in principle on a deal to make European minerals eligible for tax credits.
EU-Mercosur: a nightmare for nature
6-Mar-2023 Greenpeace
The deal as negotiated is in principle a neocolonial, extractivist instrument: intended to secure EU imports of commodities and raw materials from South America, while increasing EU exports of industrial and chemical products.
Shared views on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)
3-Mar-2023 Citizens Trade Campaign
Any final deal should correct the errors of past trade pacts and becomes a useful model for future agreements that deliver real benefits to people and the planet.
Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity is unlikely to expand trade
3-Mar-2023 American Action Forum
The APEP seeks to “foster regional economic integration,” but it does not include negotiation objectives on market access to eliminate tariffs, objectives similarly neglected by the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework..
The EU-Chile advanced framework agreement: a brief analysis of the investment protection provisions
3-Mar-2023 Lexology
The advanced framework agreement’s investment protection provisions include many of the substantive obligations that are common in international investment agreement.
Signing of US-Taiwan trade pact to be foundation for future full-scale BIA: Source
3-Mar-2023 Focus Taiwan
Taiwan and the United States will be signing an agreement under a trade initiative "in the coming weeks" that would pave the way for a full-scale bilateral trade agreement should Washington wish to explore that option.
Africa: World Customs Organization publishes Guide on AfCFTA Rules of Origin
2-Mar-2023 Baker McKenzie
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has published a Guide for Rules of Origin under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
Kagame says Africans should make AFCFTA work for them
2-Mar-2023 KT Press
President Paul Kagame has called on African leaders to fully utilize the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as the best tool for breaking the mentality of depending on and producing for others to benefit.
Rigging the rules: How Big Tech uses stealth “trade” agreements and how we can stop them
2-Mar-2023 Third World Network
Efforts to curb the ruinous business practices of the Big Tech corporations are at risk of being impeded by “digital trade” rules negotiated in international trade pacts. It is time to overturn this anti-regulatory agenda in favour of a governance model that prioritizes digital industrialization and data as a public good.
Costa Rica and Ecuador sign trade agreement
2-Mar-2023 Macau Business
The deal focuses on goods exports, plus facilitating discussions on best practices for gender-related issues in trade, workers’ rights, environmentalism and corporate responsibility.
Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement: a new attack on communities, Indigenous peoples, and the environment
2-Mar-2023 Mining Watch
A Free Trade Agreement between Ecuador and Canada is not in the interests of Indigenous peoples, territories or the environment. The FTA will only be another instrument of corporate power, wielded by the national elites to deepen the rationale for devastation.
Civil societies call on European Parliament to pressure Vietnam on human rights
2-Mar-2023 Radio Free Asia
Civil groups urged the European Parliament to step up pressure on Vietnam to improve its dismal human and labor rights records during a review of the implementation of the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.
Ministry preps mini-FTA with Shenzhen
2-Mar-2023 Bangkok Post
The Thailand Commerce Ministry clinched a memorandum of understanding to form a deeper trade partnership through a mini-free trade agreement (mini-FTA) with Shenzhen in China.
Mercosur files
1-Mar-2023 Friends of the Earth Europe
Despite the ongoing devastation, and with the Amazon likely at an irreversible environmental tipping point, the European Union continues to push for a free trade agreement with Mercosur which would increase the pressure on the region.