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S. Korea, US hold talks on competition-related issues under FTA
10-Jul-2019     The Korea Herald
South Korea and the United States on Tuesday held their first formal consultations on competition-related issues under their bilateral free trade agreement.
ASEAN Trade Ministers persuade India to speed up talks on RCEP
10-Jul-2019     The Hindu Business Line
Trade Ministers of Thailand and Indonesia and the Secretary-General of the 10-member ASEAN group met Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss ways to speed up the RCEP negotiations
Belt and road in pursuit of a free trade climate
10-Jul-2019     Macau Daily Times
Macau will aim to foster a “free trade” climate with Portuguese-speaking countries under the central government’s Belt and Road Initiative.
New Indonesian-Japanese deal to be signed in late 2019
10-Jul-2019     The Jakarta Post
The Indonesian and Japanese governments are now working to complete the countries’ new economic partnership agreement, which is expected to be signed late this year.
The free trade myth
10-Jul-2019     New Internationalist
ISDSs, legal mechanisms designed to favour corporate interests will be integral to any post-Brexit US-UK trade deal.
Civil society criticizes secretive Asia-Pacific free trade negotiations
9-Jul-2019     Devex
CSOs and other observers of the trade agreement have needed to rely on leaked 2015 documents to get a picture of what was on the table for discussion and whether there were protections offered to vulnerable communities and the environment.
Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A trade agenda for people and planet
9-Jul-2019     CCPA
The report critically analyzes the USMCA and sets out alternatives that would give priority to human rights and the rights of nature over corporate rights.
S. Korea to become global test case in its trade dispute with the EU
9-Jul-2019     Hankyoreh
The European Commission’s request to convene a panel of experts in its dispute with South Korea over labor issues means that South Korea is becoming a major global test case.
Iranian president orders to start implementing free trade zone agreement with EAEU
9-Jul-2019     TASS
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has tasked the country’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade to start implementing the free trade zone agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union.
The EU’s human rights and free trade conundrum
9-Jul-2019     Asia Times
Today the EU looks to be perfectly happy to expand trade with authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records when the economic gains are sufficiently large.