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S. Korea to hold hearing on follow-up FTA talks with China
4-Jan-2018     Yonhap News Agency
In December 2017, the trade and industry ministers of South Korea agreed to expedite negotiations to expand the two countries' two-year-old free trade agreement to include the service and investment sectors.
US and Australia meet to review bilateral FTA
3-Jan-2018     Global Trade
Officials from the United States and Australia held a meeting of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement Joint Committee to review the implementation of the FTA.
India-UK trade meet to focus on visa restrictions, trade barriers
3-Jan-2018     The Hindu
While the UK can engage in free trade agreement (FTA) talks with other countries including India only after the process of full disengagement from the EU is complete, talks are already happening unofficially on the potential of such a pact.
Britain exploring membership of the TPP to boost trade after Brexit
3-Jan-2018     The Guardian
Department for International Trade believed to be working on proposals to enter the troubled Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Leaked documents reveal how Shell blackmailed Nigeria in Malabu deal
2-Jan-2018     Petro Barometer
Shell used an arbitration case it filed with the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes to railroad the government into brokering truce between it and Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd, its estranged erstwhile partner and the original licensee.
Seoul, Washington to kick off FTA talks next week
2-Jan-2018     Korea Herald
South Korea and the United States are to start the first round of negotiations to amend their bilateral Free Trade Agreement on Jan. 5 in Washington.
Pakistan spends over Rs2b on legal expenses in Progas case
2-Jan-2018     Express Tribune
The government has spent over Rs2 billion to win a case in the international court over the acquisition of assets of Progas Pakistan Limited company – worth Rs2.3 billion.
China invites Pakistan for FTA-II talks in February
2-Jan-2018     The News
China wants no more damage to Pakistan in bilateral trade which is why the former has offered to re-initiate the stalled talks on Free Trade Agreement-II in February 2018.
China eyes Moldovan trade agreement
2-Jan-2018     Emerging Europe
China and Moldova have formally agreed to begin talks on the establishment of a free-trade deal.
China-Georgia FTA takes effect
2-Jan-2018     Ecns
The deal is the first FTA that China has signed with a country along the Silk Road Economic Belt.