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India, Israel to expedite FTA plan, boost economic ties
20-Nov-2025     Financial Express
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Israel for a review of the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides.
MEPs reject push to fast-track vote on EU–Mercosur safeguards
20-Nov-2025     Euractiv
A bid by the centre-right European People’s Party to fast-track additional safeguards linked to the EU-Mercosur trade deal collapsed during a meeting of political group chairs, according to multiple parliamentary officials.
Canada to pursue free trade negotiations with the Philippines as land and environmental defenders continue to be killed
20-Nov-2025     Peace Brigades International
On November 5, 2025, the Canadian government tabled a Notice of Intent to enter into free trade negotiations with the Philippines.
European Parliament blocks MEPs' attempt to stall Mercosur deal
20-Nov-2025     Euronews
A draft resolution opposing the Mercosur trade agreement has been blocked on procedural grounds, sparking parliamentarians' anger and putting the deal’s ratification process off to a tense start.
Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action
20-Nov-2025     Mongabay
Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres has called for reform of international arbitration tribunals, saying they’re “one of the greatest obstacles” to the energy transition and favor corporate interests over sovereignty.
The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: gambling away our digital sovereignty
19-Nov-2025     The Left in the European Parliament
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
S. Korea wins annulment in investor dispute over Lone Star's sale of local bank
19-Nov-2025     Yonhap
An international arbitration body for investor–state dispute settlement has ruled in favor of South Korea in its challenge to the award for private equity fund Lone Star over its 2012 sale of a local bank.
The tech taxes at the heart of Trump’s tariff war
19-Nov-2025     Politico
Foreign countries want to take a cut of the proceeds from digital services provided by American companies, and passed their own laws to do so... and now the US is using trade negotiations to pressure those governments into rolling them back.
EU Commission pledges to protect Belgium over Russian assets
18-Nov-2025     Politico
Belgium fears that using the assets would leave it exposed to Russian legal action. This is a major concern for Belgium, which has a bilateral investment treaty with Russia, first signed in 1989.
Bilateral Investment Treaty with UAE now in force - Business Council created
18-Nov-2025     New Zealand Government
This Treaty will help promote and facilitate investment, by providing investors in New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates with clear rules, Trade and Investment Minister Todd McClay says.