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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.
Exports, not barriers, can help India cut trade gap
10-Jul-2019 Global Times
Trade tensions with the US and a trade deficit with China are two major pressures faced by India.
S. Korea, US hold talks on competition-related issues under FTA
10-Jul-2019 The Korea Herald
South Korea and the United States on Tuesday held their first formal consultations on competition-related issues under their bilateral free trade agreement.
ASEAN Trade Ministers persuade India to speed up talks on RCEP
10-Jul-2019 The Hindu Business Line
Trade Ministers of Thailand and Indonesia and the Secretary-General of the 10-member ASEAN group met Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss ways to speed up the RCEP negotiations
Belt and road in pursuit of a free trade climate
10-Jul-2019 Macau Daily Times
Macau will aim to foster a “free trade” climate with Portuguese-speaking countries under the central government’s Belt and Road Initiative.
New Indonesian-Japanese deal to be signed in late 2019
10-Jul-2019 The Jakarta Post
The Indonesian and Japanese governments are now working to complete the countries’ new economic partnership agreement, which is expected to be signed late this year.
The free trade myth
10-Jul-2019 New Internationalist
ISDSs, legal mechanisms designed to favour corporate interests will be integral to any post-Brexit US-UK trade deal.
Civil society criticizes secretive Asia-Pacific free trade negotiations
9-Jul-2019 Devex
CSOs and other observers of the trade agreement have needed to rely on leaked 2015 documents to get a picture of what was on the table for discussion and whether there were protections offered to vulnerable communities and the environment.
Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A trade agenda for people and planet
9-Jul-2019 CCPA
The report critically analyzes the USMCA and sets out alternatives that would give priority to human rights and the rights of nature over corporate rights.
S. Korea to become global test case in its trade dispute with the EU
9-Jul-2019 Hankyoreh
The European Commission’s request to convene a panel of experts in its dispute with South Korea over labor issues means that South Korea is becoming a major global test case.
Iranian president orders to start implementing free trade zone agreement with EAEU
9-Jul-2019 TASS
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has tasked the country’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade to start implementing the free trade zone agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union.
The EU’s human rights and free trade conundrum
9-Jul-2019 Asia Times
Today the EU looks to be perfectly happy to expand trade with authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records when the economic gains are sufficiently large.
Govt attempts fresh focus on FTAs, talks with US, EU and ASEAN negotiators next week
9-Jul-2019 The Hindu
Re-elected Indian government will engage in three sets of important trade talks: with the EU, the US and ASEAN negotiators this week.
South Korea stopped discussing its CPTPP membership
9-Jul-2019 Business Korea
The South Korean government has stopped its discussion on joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Corporations have ’hijacked justice’
9-Jul-2019 The Ecologist
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade deal would undermine environmental protections in Asia.
Korean govt to enter 3rd trade talks with Mercosur nations this week
9-Jul-2019 Pulse News
The South Korean government will initiate the third trade agreement (TA) talks with four member nations of South American trade bloc Mercosur on Friday (local time) in Montevideo, Uruguay, to seek ways to increase exports to the countries.
Human rights concerns stall PH free trade talks with EU
9-Jul-2019 Inquirer Net
The European Union has suspended negotiations for a free trade deal with the Philippines partly due to concerns over human rights protection as the government wages war against illegal drugs.
Civil society dialogue on Africa’s meeting of 28 June 2019
8-Jul-2019 SOL
The preparation of the AfCFTA represents a waste of time and resources for the African States that will reduce the resources which should be concentrated on economic and political strengthening of the Regional Economic Communities.
Egypt, US to promote greater reciprocal market access for agricultural, industrial goods
8-Jul-2019 MENAFN
Egypt and the United States are seeking ways to promote a greater reciprocal market access for agricultural and industrial goods following the latest talks of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement .
S. Korea to launch task force to handle lawsuits by global investors
8-Jul-2019 The Investor
South Korea’s financial regulator said it will launch a task force later this month to handle lawsuits filed by global investors, such as US private equity fund Lone Star.