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Somalia joins regional leaders at AfCFTA Business Forum in Marrakech
18-Dec-2025     FTL Somalia
Throughout the forum, Abdullahi engaged in high-level bilateral discussions with senior AfCFTA officials, Morocco’s Prime Minister, the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade, as well as trade ministers from Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Djibouti. These talks emphasized strengthening bilateral ties, expanding trade and investment cooperation, and elevating Somalia’s role in Africa’s economic integration.
Non-binding instruments in international economic diplomacy: A look at the US critical minerals deals
18-Dec-2025     EJIL: Talk!
The US critical minerals deals highlight the deepening turn to soft-law instruments in economic diplomacy. But they also coexist with binding trade agreements.
EU agrees on tougher Mercosur safeguards in bid to placate Italy, France
18-Dec-2025     Politico
The EU institutions agreed to strengthen protections for European farmers under a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc, in an eleventh-hour push to rally heavyweights France and Italy into backing the controversial pact.
Italy's Meloni pours cold water on EU-Mercosur deal, calling it 'premature'
17-Dec-2025     Euronews
Signing the EU-Mercosur deal in the following days is "premature," Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said during an address to the Italian parliament in Rome.
Is US pressure against foreign digital policy working?
17-Dec-2025     Digital Policy Alert
An investigation of US tariff deal priorities and government responses, including an annex with annotated tariff deal texts.
The failed USMCA project
17-Dec-2025     Mexico Solidarity
Transnational corporations have won, and they have won at the cost of displacing Mexico’s national producers and leading the national economy to stagnation and dependence on foreign capital & indebtedness.
Trade agreements risk undermining consumers’ right to repair, warns TACD Report
17-Dec-2025     TACD
The report details how digital trade rules, such as so-called “source code protection” provisions threaten to override ambitious right to repair laws now advancing in both the United States and European Union.
Korea to push for service sector FTA with China, CPTPP affiliation for export momentum
17-Dec-2025     Korea JoongAng Daily
Korea aims to strengthen its export-driven economy by pursuing a service-sector Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China and joining the Japan-led Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
EU Parliament votes to harden Mercosur safeguards before crunch talks with capitals
17-Dec-2025     Politico
The European Parliament voted to tighten additional protections on the EU’s trade agreement with the South American Mercosur bloc, opening the way for talks with member countries that will need to find a rapid compromise to finally get the deal done.
India, Oman to sign free trade agreement on Thursday in Muscat
17-Dec-2025     Business Standard
India and Oman will sign a free trade agreement on Thursday in Muscat with an aim to boost economic ties between the two countries.