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Việt Nam ready to share experience to help UK join CPTPP
18-Sep-2020     Viet Nam News
Việt Nam is willing and ready to share its experience with the UK if the country wants to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
India engaging with ASEAN to review free trade agreement: Piyush Goyal
18-Sep-2020     Deccan Herald
India is engaging with the 10-member ASEAN to review the free trade agreement, Parliament was informed on Friday.
India seeks market concession for rice, access for grapes, pomegranates from South Korea
18-Sep-2020     Economic Times
India will seek concessions for its rice exports to South Korea as Seoul levies a whopping 513% tariff on imported rice and buys rice from only five countries under its tariff rate quota regime.
BOI eyes five new trade agreements with key trading partners
18-Sep-2020     Daily Mirror
Sri Lanka’s apex investment promotion body, Board of Investment (BOI), is eyeing five new trade agreements with key trading partners—Japan, China, European Union (EU), United States and United Kingdom (UK)— over the next three years.
Will the UK really join the CPTPP free-trade bloc in Asia-Pacific?
18-Sep-2020     The Conversation
Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore are willing to give Britain a seat at the table but the interests of the remaining seven states are unclear.
ICSID grants Pakistan six months stay order in Reko Diq case
18-Sep-2020     The News
The World Bank's ICSID has granted Pakistan a stay order of six months in the Reko Diq case in which Islamabad was awarded with a whopping $6 billion fine.
Eight EU countries urge “real action” from Brazil to combat deforestation
18-Sep-2020     MercoPress
European politicians and investors have mounted pressure on Brazil to step up environmental protection as deforestation rises and the two sides attempt to finalize a free trade deal agreed to in principle last year.
China, EU to hold 32nd round of investment treaty negotiations
18-Sep-2020     Xinhua
The 32nd round of China-European Union bilateral investment treaty negotiations will kick off next week.
Department of Trade Negotiations pushes ahead utilisation of RCEP privileges
18-Sep-2020     Bangkok Post
As the 15 RCEP members are preparing to sign an agreement this November in Vietnam, the Department of Trade Negotiations is explaining how to make the most of RCEP and deal advantageously with its impacts in terms of competition among farmers, entrepreneurs, and civil society.
A new trend in trade agreements: Ensuring access to cancer drugs
17-Sep-2020     South Centre
People around the world need to be aware of precedents in recent trade agreements and ensure that they also work for access to medicines for their own citizens.