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Critical minerals, Antarctica focus of India- Chile talks on economic partnership
2-Apr-2025     Mint
India and Chile will soon begin talks on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement focusing on a wide range of sectors like critical minerals, Antarctica and digital public infrastructure.
Conflicts of interest and sovereignty at stake: The Ecuador-Canada FTA
2-Apr-2025     CEPR
Ecuador's free trade agreement with Canada presents a glaring conflict of interest for President Noboa, whose family, one of Ecuador’s wealthiest, has a sizable financial stake in a Canada-based mining company.
First Quantum to discontinue two Cobre Panama arbitration proceedings
2-Apr-2025     Reuters
First Quantum Minerals said it had agreed to discontinue two arbitration proceedings related to its Cobre Panama copper mine.
Investment treaties: Protecting transition investments, but are they just?
1-Apr-2025     Business Human Rights Journal
The urgent demand for critical minerals has led to the expansion of mining operations, often accompanied by significant human rights and environmental abuses that cause social unrest and spark disputes between states and foreign investors.
Europeche calls for exclusion of tuna from new free trade agreement with Thailand
1-Apr-2025     Baird Maritime
As the European Commission and Thailand begin the fifth round of trade negotiations today until 4 April, calls are growing in Spain for tuna to be excluded from any future deal with Bangkok.
EU-Thailand trade talks resume as Spain worries about tuna sector
1-Apr-2025     Euractiv
As the European Commission and Thailand begin the fifth round of trade negotiations today until 4 April, calls are growing in Spain for tuna to be excluded from any future deal with Bangkok.
Thailand, Sri Lanka fast-track FTA strategy to diversify exports and draw investors
31-Mar-2025     Pattaya Mail
The move followed discussions between Suchat Chomklin, Deputy Minister of Commerce, and representatives from the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce in Colombo.
India, US decide to hold sector-specific talks for proposed trade pact in coming weeks
31-Mar-2025     The Hindu
The US is pushing India to negotiate a large and grand bilateral trade agreement while seeking to open the agriculture sector for American businesses
CEPA programme strengthens UAE’s global economic position
31-Mar-2025     Gulf Today
The UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement programme, initiated in September 2021, has resulted in 26 agreements with strategically significant countries and international blocs by the end of the first quarter of 2025
ETUC position on EU digital trade agreements with 3rd countries
31-Mar-2025     ETUC
Digital trade agreements should not prevent enforcement of workers’ rights or indeed the improvement of working conditions.