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Consultations ending on restart for Thai-EU trade talks
12-Nov-2019 The Nation Thailand
The Thai Commerce Ministry is preparing to wrap up consultations with relevant agencies and organisations to resume free-trade talks with the European Union.
India, US to hold bilateral trade talks on Nov. 13
12-Nov-2019 Live Mint
Indian commerce minister will meet his US counterpart Robert Lighthizer, on Nov. 13, days after India exited the RCEP.
India, EU to push for free trade pact again
12-Nov-2019 The Hindu
Move follows govt. decision to pull out of RCEP; Europe sceptical about timeline.
Minister designates conclusion of trade negotiations as priority
12-Nov-2019 Line Today
Indonesian Trade Minister brought attention to prioritizing the prompt conclusion of several international trade negotiations in 2020, including RCEP and deals with Tunisia, Morocco, the EU and Turkey.
Pak-China FTA to become effective from Dec
12-Nov-2019 The News
China has approved the premature activation of the free trade agreement with Pakistan. This is the second phase of FTA with china that was signed in Beijing in April 2019.
The new NAFTA won’t protect workers’ rights
12-Nov-2019 The Nation
Trump’s new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement repeats the disasters of the original agreement.
EU-Singapore trade deal to enter into force this month
12-Nov-2019 New Europe
The Council of the European Union gave the green light to the free trade deal between the bloc and Singapore.
Revamped bilaterals.org launched!
11-Nov-2019
After a week in Hanoi: What we need to make a EU-Vietnam trade deal work
10-Nov-2019 Euractiv
Will this trade deal help improve people’s livelihoods and rights, and offer a brighter future for Vietnamese at home? Or will it make matters worse.
Multilateralism, lack of development and violence: Central American migrants in transit through Mexico
9-Nov-2019 https://bilaterals.org/?multilatera...
The NHS will be part of any post-Brexit US free trade deal—here’s why
8-Nov-2019 The London Economic
“Free trade” deals are often a cover for privatising public services and US negotiating texts already mention British drug and tech companies.
Ukraine, Turkey to hold next round of FTA talks in January
8-Nov-2019 Ukrinform
Ukraine and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on signing the free trade agreement between the two countries in January 2020.
Ukraine ready for conclusion of FTA with UK, and hard Brexit trade representative
8-Nov-2019 MENAFN
Ukraine is ready for conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom and for economic cooperation in the face of hard Brexit.
Can Britain reach a trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020?
8-Nov-2019 The Guardian
Few experts believe transition period is long enough, raising continued threat of no-deal Brexit.
China, EU reach ’hallmark’ bilateral trade GI agreement: MOFCOM
8-Nov-2019 Global Times
This is the first comprehensive, high-level bilateral agreement China has ever signed with foreign businesses to protect geographic indication.
The UK will never get the US trade deal it wants
7-Nov-2019 CNN
The United Kingdom is likely to be confronted by a phalanx of hard-nosed American trade officials who will attempt to pry open British markets to more American goods.
Kuwait wins int’l property ownership case
7-Nov-2019 MENAFN
ICSID dismisses lawsuit filed by Egyptian company.
RCEP: Does free trade reduce inequalities, ask Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in their new book
7-Nov-2019 Scroll.in
Data shows that poverty reduction slows down in areas impacted the most strongly by trade liberalisation, says the book.
Africa offers a test to von der Leyen’s ‘geopolitical Commission’
7-Nov-2019 Euractiv
The African Union Commission’s high representative on Cotonou has warned that keeping the ACP framework will make it harder for the EU to agree on a ‘continent-to-continent instrument’.
Has India lost its free trade mojo? Or will Delhi substitute the RCEP for the EAEU?
7-Nov-2019 India Briefing
he EAEU deal may well be championed in India as a game-changer, and in certain sectors it will be. But what India really needs is the motivation and initiative to compete with China.