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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Asia and the Pacific region.

50,000 people say another world is possible
13-Mar-2024     Local Futures
Together with GRAIN, Local Futures organized the aforementioned workshop ‘Resisting Free Trade Agreements in South Asia’, which brought together activists from South Asian countries to confront the massive proliferation of free trade agreements
Indonesia and Malaysia explore ASEAN-Egypt free trade agreements
13-Mar-2024     RMOL
Egyptian, Malaysian, and Indonesian trade officials met to discuss efforts to explore an ASEAN-EEgypt free trade agreement, as Egypt has long been a business partner for ASEAN countries.
APEC pursues new approaches to reignite FTAAP
8-Mar-2024     Antara
APEC member economies are considering innovative and improved approaches to revitalize the Free-Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) as a major instrument to further APEC’s regional economic integration agenda.
US-led Indo-Pacific deal on supply chain resilience takes effect
26-Feb-2024     Japan Today
The IPEF supply chain agreement has recently come into effect, aiming to enhance economic collaboration among member countries. The agreement focuses on strengthening supply chain resilience, identifying key sectors, and establishing an emergency communications channel to address disruptions.
IPEF supply chain deal to take effect Feb. 24
1-Feb-2024     Nippon.com
The US Commerce Department said Wednesday that an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity agreement on supply chains will come into effect Feb. 24.
Commerce chief signs HK-Asean FTA protocol
10-Jan-2024     The Star
This will enable Hong Kong businesses to more easily and effectively gain Hong Kong-originating status for more of their products, providing them with preferential tariff treatment when expanding into the growing Asean market.
India to sign clean, fair economy deal under Indo-Pacific economic framework
9-Jan-2024     Live Mint
India is expected to sign a much-awaited deal on two more pillars of the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework—clean economy and fair economy—early next year.
Daya Laxmi: “Free Trade Agreements affect and victimize peasant groups”
19-Dec-2023     Capire
Women from all around the world organize the struggle against capitalism and neoliberalism. In the South Asia region, these forces—in the form of free trade agreements (FTA)—play a huge role in the impoverishment of peasants and women in rural and urban areas.
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework chats expected to continue in 2024
13-Dec-2023     Brownfield
The chief ag negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative says discussions on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework are expected to resume in the New Year.
US, Indo-Pacific partners need to 'recalibrate' trade talks -USTR's Bianchi
17-Nov-2023     Reuters
Some countries, including Vietnam and Indonesia, rejected US demands for labor rights standards to be enforced through a dispute settlement system similar to that in the US-Canada-Mexico agreement on trade.