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Indonesia and UAE begin talks on trade and investment pact
3-Sep-2021     Nikkei Asia
Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates announced the start of negotiations for a new free trade and investment agreement, as the two modern Muslim nations seek to take newly forged ties to a new level.
India, UK agree to be ambitious on services deal in FTA negotiations
3-Sep-2021     Business Standard
India and the United Kingdom expressed their commitment to working out a free trade agreement and said the two countries would be ambitious while negotiating on services in the deal.
Kenya-Pakistan end tariff wars, draft MoUs for more trade
2-Sep-2021     The Star
Kenya and Pakistan have ended a long-standing tariff war that hurt trade between the two countries, mainly Kenyan tea exports.
Examining trade disputes in AfCFTA agreement: The need to engage private sector in Nigeria
2-Sep-2021     Vanguard News Nigeria
AfCFTA roundtable brought together business leaders, academia, government representatives, trade, and legal experts to discuss and deliberate on dispute issues in implementing the agreement in Nigeria.
A turning point for Dubai-Africa trade
2-Sep-2021     Forbes Africa
Dubai’s trade with Africa has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade, thanks to several important developments that have established new business links between the emirate and promising markets across the continent.
What's going on between African nations and the EU?
2-Sep-2021     Devex
African leaders still have incentives to maintain the partnership between the two continents, not least because of the trade links and development assistance Europe offers. But they also have a strong interest in revising that relationship.
Government bars unions from ‘seat at the table’ in trade talks
2-Sep-2021     The Independent
UK Prime Minister and the trade department are blocking trade unions from sensitive trade talks despite unions’ offers to sign confidentiality agreements, according to leading labour representatives.
Timeline shifts for UK-NZ free trade deal
2-Sep-2021     RNZ
A free trade deal with the UK is taking longer than both sides had hoped.
Beijing will back Hong Kong’s entry into world’s biggest free-trade deal, China’s commerce minister tells belt and road summit
1-Sep-2021     South China Morning Post
Wang pledged to support Hong Kong in joining “as soon as possible” the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s biggest free-trade deal covering China and 14 other nations in the Asia-Pacific region.
First meeting for UK's CPTPP inclusion to be held in a month, Japan minister says
1-Sep-2021     Reuters
Member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) agreed to hold within a month a first meeting with Britain to discuss its inclusion in the trade deal.