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’Key demand’: EU wants Australia to dump taxes on European cars
4-Sep-2019 Sydney Morning Herald
A key demand from the EU in the negotiation of a new free trade agreement will be that Australia ditches both its 5 per cent duty on imported European cars and the luxury car tax.
US Democrats concerned about USMCA enforcement, Pelosi tells Canada’s Trudeau
4-Sep-2019 Reuters
Democrats’ key concerns are labor standards, prescription drug prices, environmental protections and concrete enforcement mechanisms.
Africa’s tripartite free trade area to be operational in early 2020: COMESA
4-Sep-2019 Xinhua
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said.
USMCA pits rural people in each country against one another: Via Campesina North America
3-Sep-2019 La Via Campesina
We see the revision of NAFTA – rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) – as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live.
EU to push Australia to clean up petrol standards as part of free trade deal
3-Sep-2019 The Guardian
The European Union wants Australia’s Paris climate commitments enshrined in new FTA.
Modernized Israel-Canada free trade agreement enters into force
3-Sep-2019 Jerusalem Post
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries.
La Via Campesina issues call to mobilise against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
3-Sep-2019 Via Campesina
La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to not be misled by the smokescreen of a ‘weakening WTO’ and be aware of the new age mega and bilateral free trade agreements are equally if not more harmful.
Here’s how we need to protect our NHS from any future US/UK trade deal
3-Sep-2019 Open Democracy
Boris Johnson is promising new legislation to ’help the NHS’. But the danger is it will just gift wrap it for US corporations. Campaigners are uniting to say #HandsOffOurNHS and to call on MPs to really protect it.
Quebec dairy farmers struggling with new open markets
3-Sep-2019 CTV
Quebec dairy farmers continue to struggle as international trade agreements have hit their bottom line hard.
Rajnath Singh to urge Seoul to stay away from CPEC
3-Sep-2019 The Economic Times
For defence minister Rajnath Singh, the immediate tasks at hand include blocking Korean funds from flowing into Pakistan.
S. Korea, Malaysia to hold 3rd round of FTA talks this week
3-Sep-2019 Korea Herald
South Korea will hold a third round of free trade talks with Malaysia this week with the aim of striking a trade deal before November, Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday.
RCEP negotiations in ’final stages’, should be completed by 2019 or early 2020: Chan Chun Sing
3-Sep-2019 The Strais Times
Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that at this point, the RCEP has gone beyond an economic agreement and is a strategic signal to the world’s economy on what countries in this part of the world believe in.
FTA with Britain is being pushed by ministry
2-Sep-2019 Korea Joongang Daily
The free trade agreement with Britain should be completed before the country’s scheduled exit from the European Union, said Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
EAEU-Iran trade deal to take effect on October 27: report
30-Aug-2019 Mehr
Officials from both parties exchanged messages about completing the necessary procedures to enforce an interim agreement leading to the formation of the free trade area.
EU warns Serbia to cancel free trade pact with Russia if it wants to join bloc
30-Aug-2019 Euronews
Brussels has warned Serbia it must dissolve a proposed new free-trade deal with Russia if it wants to join the European Union.
Trading away protection
29-Aug-2019 CEO
Emerging threats from the EU-US trade talks on confomity assessments and regulatory cooperation.
‘Phase 1B’ of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations
29-Aug-2019 South Centre
This policy brief focuses on the expected economic impacts of tariff liberalization under the AfCFTA.
Russia, India ready to negotiate FTA agreement
29-Aug-2019 Xinhua
Russia is ready to start negotiating with India to set up a Free Trade Area with the Eurasian Economic Union.
EU-Mercosur trade deal could be ready by late 2020 in best case: EU official
29-Aug-2019 Reuters
The European Union should be able to conclude a free-trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries by late 2020 in an optimistic scenario, a senior EU trade official said.
Canada will continue trade negotiations with Mercosur, despite the current Amazon policy of Brazil
29-Aug-2019 MercoPress
Canada will continue its trade negotiations with Mercosur, the South American trading bloc that includes Brazil, despite demands to call a halt to the talks until more action is taken to protect the Amazon rainforest.