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Pakistan, Uzbekistan to sign PTA
3-Mar-2022     The Express Tribune
Pakistan and Uzbekistan will sign a preferential trade agreement this week to lower duties on nearly three-dozen products in the range of 20% to 100%.
S. Korea, Mexico agree to resume talks on free trade deal
3-Mar-2022     The Korea Herald
South Korea and Mexico have agreed to resume negotiations to forge a bilateral free trade agreement 14 years after their suspension.
UAE and Israel are closing in a possible free trade deal by summer
2-Mar-2022     Gulf News
Israel wants to be among UAE’s Top 10 trade partners in ‘5 to 10 years’.
I confess, I am an AfCFTA sceptic
1-Mar-2022     The Africa Report
I do not share the view that the AfCFTA is the solution to Africa’s low level of intra-Africa trade. Neither do I believe that it will trigger the great transformation of Africa’s economies that its advocates assert it will.
NZ 'pushing hard' to secure free trade agreement with EU
1-Mar-2022     1News
New Zealand will be "pushing hard" to secure a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU this year, Trade Minister Damien O'Connor says.
Trade agreements must be climate-focused, new IPCC report shows
1-Mar-2022     Policy Options
Governments need to repair the incoherence between climate objectives and the emissions-intensive trajectory of the global economy.
NZ-UK free trade agreement: “a missed opportunity”
1-Mar-2022     Scoop
The announcement of the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom was described by Pita Tipene as “a missed opportunity to set a new bar for honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi”.
FTA with UK: Dairy and meat exporters thrilled, but academic criticises deal
1-Mar-2022     RNZ
New Zealand's key export sectors are lauding a new free trade agreement (FTA) with the United Kingdom, while it has received stiff criticism from one academic who said it was "hardly an economic bonanza".
Analyzing China’s TPP bid
1-Mar-2022     Nippon
China applied to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and some analysts see it as a Chinese declaration that even with the elimination of tariffs, the country’s products can hold their own now.
African countries must protect their fish stocks from the European Union - here’s how
28-Feb-2022     The Conversation
Fisheries serve as a source of employment for millions of people in the small scale sector on the coastline of Africa. Their fishing activities, in turn, provide food security to over 200 million Africans.