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Ambassador: ‘We should be more creative’ in finalising Azerbaijan-EU trade deal
5-Sep-2019     Euractiv
It took 20 years for the EU and Mercosur to sign a trade agreement. “We don’t want to wait that much,” says the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the EU, urging the European Commission to drop its “bureaucratic matrix” thinking.
Luxembourg leads EU push to climate-proof Energy Charter Treaty
4-Sep-2019     Euractiv
Critics say the Energy Charter provides excessive legal protection for oil and gas companies, which can claim uncapped reparations from governments who frustrate investments in fossil fuel projects.
Modernized free trade agreement lifts duties on Israeli imports of Canadian foodstuffs
4-Sep-2019     Fresh Plaza
The expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement took effect, eliminating or reducing tariffs on the import into Israel of a wide range of foods from Canada.
'Key demand': EU wants Australia to dump taxes on European cars
4-Sep-2019     Sydney Morning Herald
A key demand from the EU in the negotiation of a new free trade agreement will be that Australia ditches both its 5 per cent duty on imported European cars and the luxury car tax.
US Democrats concerned about USMCA enforcement, Pelosi tells Canada's Trudeau
4-Sep-2019     Reuters
Democrats’ key concerns are labor standards, prescription drug prices, environmental protections and concrete enforcement mechanisms.
Africa's tripartite free trade area to be operational in early 2020: COMESA
4-Sep-2019     Xinhua
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said.
USMCA pits rural people in each country against one another: Via Campesina North America
3-Sep-2019     La Via Campesina
We see the revision of NAFTA – rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) – as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live.
EU to push Australia to clean up petrol standards as part of free trade deal
3-Sep-2019     The Guardian
The European Union wants Australia’s Paris climate commitments enshrined in new FTA.
Modernized Israel-Canada free trade agreement enters into force
3-Sep-2019     Jerusalem Post
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries.
La Via Campesina issues call to mobilise against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
3-Sep-2019     Via Campesina
La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to not be misled by the smokescreen of a ‘weakening WTO’ and be aware of the new age mega and bilateral free trade agreements are equally if not more harmful.