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EU and Thailand cap turbulent decade with a partnership agreement
9-Sep-2022 Bangkok Post
The agreement conclusion may also indicate that both sides are inching closer toward a free trade agreement, which would be the third the EU has struck with a Southeast Asian country.
India to seek review of trade pact with Japan: Goyal
8-Sep-2022 Outlook India
India will seek review of its free trade agreement with Japan during a meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and his Japanese counterpart in Los Angeles.
British investors could sue Australia over climate action if UK joins trans-Pacific trade pact
8-Sep-2022 The Conversation
It’s a portent of claims Australia may face from British companies invested in Australia’s fossil-fuel industries if the United Kingdom gets its way and joins the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
No FTA with Israel until we get a good deal: Piyush Goyal
8-Sep-2022 Financial Express
Israel’s tariffs on goods are, as such, very low for all and it’s yet to commit to opening up its services sector for India, the minister said.
The ECTA not just a trade deal but an outcome of larger systemic confidence with Australia: S Jaishankar
8-Sep-2022 Financial Express
India Australia leadership dialogue is taking place as India Australia relations have shifted gears and moved into a higher orbit.
US says Indo-Pacific Economic Framework beyond “traditional trade agreement”
8-Sep-2022 The Print
Official negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework are set to start in Los Angeles, when US Trade Representative and US Commerce Secretary sit down with their counterparts from 13 other participating countries.
Demanding a transparent and participatory process in any Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) negotiations
8-Sep-2022
The need for another trade agreement in Asia-Pacific has not been established. If countries choose to move forward with Indo-Pacific Economic Framework talks, they must be based on a new model that prioritizes the interests of people instead of just big corporations.
US not looking for free trade agreement: Piyush Goyal in CA
7-Sep-2022 India West
India and the US are ready to be more engaged in the Indo-Pacific economic framework, which will help create more resilient supply chains and partnerships between businesses in the two countries.
10 September 2022 | International day of action against the WTO and FTAs
7-Sep-2022 La Via Campesina
Every year, on 10 September, all the members and allies of La Via Campesina mobilize against the destructive policies that are forced upon the small-scale food producers through bilateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements.
Signs of an emerging France-Algeria-Tunisia axis to restrain Morocco
7-Sep-2022 Morocco World News
The visit was thus a telling declaration of intentions from both the Tunisian and Algerian regimes, who have ever since appeared to be striving to deepen bilateral ties to form a Maghrebi bloc to undermine Morocco’s strategic interests.
Tension between Tunis and Rabat risks affecting economic ties
7-Sep-2022 North Africa Post
The diplomatic tensions between Rabat and Tunis due to the support shown by Kais Saied to the Polisario separatist militias could spill over to economic ties between the two countries.
Uruguayan FM off to brokering Mercosur deal approval with EU
7-Sep-2022 MercoPress
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo is off on a European tour seeking to advance in the signing of the Mercosur-European Union agreement.
Discussions on India-Bangladesh Economic Partnership Agreement to begin soon: Modi
6-Sep-2022 Social News XYZ
India and Bangladesh will soon begin discussions on a bilateral economic partnership agreement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on 6 September 2022.
Understanding the proposed Bangladesh-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
6-Sep-2022 The Daily Star
The proposed CEPA between Bangladesh and India has three dimensions: Trade in goods, trade in services, and investment.
Q & A on IPEF (“Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity”)
5-Sep-2022
The IPEF is the US’s latest strategy to be the global rule-maker on trade, food production, digital and data, the climate crisis, regulating services, corporate power to influence new laws, multinationals’ tax rates, and much else.
Korea on alert over 6 more investor-state suits following Lone Star ruling
5-Sep-2022 The Korea Times
The total amount of claims asked by claimants against the Korean government exceeds $1.2 billion.
US looking to lock in Pacific with new economic framework
5-Sep-2022 PANG
This week Trade Ministers from eleven countries will meet with the view to launch negotiations for an Indo-Pacific economic agreement.
‘FTAs with UK, Canada to be sealed in 2022’
5-Sep-2022 The Hindu
India’s free trade pact negotiations with the United Kingdom are ‘within touching distance’ of a deal and a similar deal along with a bilateral investment treaty with Canada is expected to be concluded by December, its top trade official said.
Some implications of the digital economy paragraph of the leaked draft ministerial text for IPEF trade pillar
2-Sep-2022
The US will host the first in-person IPEF Ministerial meeting in Los Angeles from 8-9 September 2022, which is expected to launch formal negotiations. Some countries may decide not to remain involved in some or all of the IPEF’s “pillars”.
Poland drafts law to ‘terminate’ controversial Energy Charter Treaty
2-Sep-2022 Euractiv
The draft law on the “termination of the of the Energy Charter Treaty” and its protocols was agreed by the Polish government on 10 August and sent to the country’s lower chamber.