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Singapore ratifies ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement
7-Apr-2021     Khmer Times
Singapore has ratified the ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement and become the first ASEAN member to do so.
Uruguay pushing to make Mercosur more flexible
7-Apr-2021     Anadolu
Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reportedly wish to make the trading bloc more flexible for commerce by negotiating new trade accords to reduce the bloc's tariffs.
Digital trade deal ripe for the Indo-Pacific
7-Apr-2021     The Hill
US Trade Representative has raised digital trade as an area of potential future cooperation in her coversations thus far with Asian partners.
Agriculture Sector Network ASNET welcomes UK-Kenya Free Trade Agreement
7-Apr-2021     Fresh Plaza
Kenya agriculture sector umbrella body, The Agriculture Sector Network, ASNET, has lauded the recently ratified Economic Partnership Agreement between Kenya and UK saying it will go a long way in boosting economic development and job creation.
Encouraging competition in AfCFTA: Govt waives import duties
7-Apr-2021     Graphic Online
Ghana government has waived import duties on imported equipment, machines and raw materials for local manufacturing companies to enable them to become competitive in the global marketplace.
Biden team set to review Kenya, Trump trade talks
7-Apr-2021     The East African
The Biden administration will review bilateral trade negotiations and targets that ex-President Donald Trump regime made with Kenya last year over a potential free trading deal. The start of the trade talks could be delayed.
A brief history of globalisation
6-Apr-2021     Investment Monitor
Investment treaties largely replaced colonial gunboats as a way to continue to exploit the resources of foreign countries.
Mercosur trade deal threatens to wreck EU’s climate credibility
6-Apr-2021     Euractiv
To pass the EU-Mercosur deal in its current state would set an horrific precedent for future trade deals currently under negotiation and fly in the face of the EU’s landmark Green Deal.
Battle looms for Aussie dairy over Haloumi
6-Apr-2021     Farm Online
Australia's dairy industry is bracing for a fight over the name "haloumi", after the European Union voted to restrict cheese manufacturers outside of Cyprus from marketing haloumi cheese under that name.
D-8 nations should sign PTAs
6-Apr-2021     The Daily Star
Nations of the D-8 should sign a much-needed preferential trade agreement to remove tariff and non-tariff barriers, ministers and entrepreneurs of the trade bloc said.