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Foreign Minister Winston Peters will again travel to the US and is aiming to secure a trade deal
15-Jul-2019 NZ Herald
Foreign Minister Winston Peters is heading to the US to meet with senior Trump administration officials for the second time in just over six months.
Central Africans express mixed reactions to continental free trade area
15-Jul-2019 VOA
Analysts and businesspeople in the six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community say that although the African Continental Free Trade Area brings hope for pan African trade, they are not sure CEMAC will be fully implemented anytime soon.
The ‘giant sucking sound’ of NAFTA: Ross Perot was ridiculed as alarmist in 1992 but his warning turned out to be prescient
15-Jul-2019 The Conversation
What Americans need is trade between the US and Mexico that benefits people in both countries. To do that, labor rights need to be harmonized to the best standards in North America, not slide to the lowest.
Trade impasse as EU seeks deal with entire EAC bloc
15-Jul-2019 The East African
The EAC negotiated and concluded a bilateral trade agreement with the EU as a bloc, and it must remain as such, say sources at the European Commission.
EU-US trade talks: milestone reached in mutual recognition on pharmaceuticals
15-Jul-2019 The European Sting
The mutual recognition agreement for inspections of manufacturing sites for human medicines in their respective territories can make it faster and less costly for both sides to bring medicines to the market.
EU-Vietnam trade deal prompts concern in Thailand
14-Jul-2019 ASEAN Today
The new EU-Vietnam free trade deal could spark a manufacturing exodus from Thailand to Vietnam. Thailand will likely look to other markets to compensate.
EU-Philippine free trade agreement still on the table
14-Jul-2019 Inquirer Net
The EU Commission or the Council never have adopted any decision to suspend the EU - Philippines FTA negotiation
Dhaka to form body to negotiate signing FTA with Malaysia
14-Jul-2019 The Independent
Bangladesh will form a committee to negotiate signing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Malaysia.
Pakistan fined Rs950 bn in Reko Diq case
14-Jul-2019 The News International
The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank has rendered almost $6 billion (Rs950 billion) award against Pakistan in Reko Diq case.
EU-Mercosur FTA texts (Uruguay, Jul 2019)
12-Jul-2019 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay
As released by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay
Trump’s ’America First’ policy driving other countries to ink trade deals, analysts say
12-Jul-2019 Washington Times
Europe, Asia, Africa rush to nail down accords
Government defeated in Dáil vote on Mercosur trade deal
12-Jul-2019 The Irish Times
The motion condemned the trade agreement, recently agreed between the EU and four South American countries, as “a bad deal for Ireland and for the planet” and mandated the Government to oppose the deal at the Council of Ministers in the future.
RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
12-Jul-2019 GRAIN
The RCEP mega-trade agreement if adopted will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it. Therefore, it has the potential to increase land grabbing across Asia – already a huge problem in this region.
PH, SoKor eye to sign FTA by November
11-Jul-2019 Philippine News Agency
The Philippines Trade Secretary expects to open up the South Korean market to more Philippine products other than traditional agricultural goods, with the free trade deal which is targeted to be signed this November.
India-US trade talks to restart Friday with little sign of compromise
11-Jul-2019 Reuters
Indian and U.S. trade negotiators will meet with little sign of a compromise on a series of protectionist measures taken by the two governments in recent months that have strained ties between the strategic partners.
More leaked documents show UK’s free trade talks with US making little progress
11-Jul-2019 The National
Efforts to secure a free-trade deal between the UK and US are floundering, documents leaked to the UK’s Telegraph newspaper show.
Rwanda ratifies Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement
11-Jul-2019 The New Times
Members of the Lower House approved the agreement establishing a Tripartite Free Trade Area among the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community, and the Southern African Development Community.
Why Nigerian small manufacturers fear new continental trade deal
11-Jul-2019 VOA
Some manufacturers in Nigeria say that wading into the continental market could undermine local players and have negative implications.
White House is likely to send USMCA trade deal to Congress after Sept. 1, sources say
11-Jul-2019 CNBC
The move sets up a vote on President Donald Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement by the end of the year.
Angry scenes outside Leinster House as Gov accused of throwing farmers ’under the bus’
11-Jul-2019 Irish Examiner
The Irish Government has been accused of throwing farmers under the bus with the Mercosur trade deal.