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Bangladesh, Nepal stress finalizing PTA
22-Apr-2024     BSS News
Bangladesh and Nepal in a commerce secretary level meeting put emphasis on finalizing the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), highlighting its significance in boosting bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Nepal.
Beijing lobbying for Hong Kong to join world’s biggest free-trade pact this year: minister
22-Apr-2024     MSN
Hong Kong is expected to join the RCEP this year despite past delays, as Beijing lobbies all member states to speed up the approval process for the city, the local commerce chief has said.
Canada pushes for more mining in Ecuador despite resistance
22-Apr-2024     The Maple
The Canadian and Ecuadorian governments continue to forge ahead with free trade agreement plans, despite opposition from social movements and Indigenous Peoples within Ecuador, along with rampant instability.
Public summary of second set of US text proposals under the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership
19-Apr-2024     USTR
The United States has tabled proposed texts under the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership (STIP), covering Agriculture, Good Regulatory Practice and Workers’ Rights and Protection.
Trade deception returns in Pan-Africanist guise
19-Apr-2024     Inter Press Service
The World Bank has exaggerated probable gains from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to promote partial and uneven trade liberalisation that is unlikely to enhance development on the continent.
Diana Mondino: Mercosur must open up to ‘agreements with other countries’
19-Apr-2024     Buenos Aires Times
Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino calls for modernisation of Mercosur rules and backs push for free-trade deal with China.
India, UK to resume FTA talks
16-Apr-2024     Financial Express
The visit of the Indian delegation comes a month after both sides decided to take a pause in negotiations when Indian elections were announced on March 15.
TEPA’s IP encroachment: A new barrier to indigenous innovation
16-Apr-2024     The Hindu
The new approach to intellectual property and investment through FTAs accepts an IP maximalist agenda of the United States Trade Representative; it threatens to upset the fine balance between public and private interests and push India away from essential innovations.
Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Zephyr Teachout, Dani Rodrik, and 295 law and economics professors urge Biden to terminate ISDS provisions in existing US trade and investment agreements
15-Apr-2024    
As US law professors and economics professors deeply committed to the rule of law and economic well-being both domestically and globally, we strongly urge you to remove ISDS provisions from existing US trade and investment agreements.
Libya's sovereign wealth fund launches €15bn arbitration drive against Belgian prince
15-Apr-2024     The National
It is presumed the claim is on the basis of the bilateral investment treaty between Libya and Belgium.