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India & UK look to close FTA talks on five chapters with contentious issues
17-Jul-2023     Indian Express
India and the UK are looking to close negotiations over five chapters dealing with contentious issues such as digital trade, environment and labour in the ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
India, EU disagree over dispute settlement in proposed investment protection pact
13-Jul-2023     The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi insists on 'exhaustion of local remedies' clause but Brussels wants investor court system.
Top diplomat says China, ASEAN pushing ahead with free trade area talks
13-Jul-2023     Yahoo
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are pushing ahead with talks on a third version of a free trade agreement at an ASEAN summit in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, China's top diplomat Wang Yi said.
India and GCC revitalize economic partnership: Resuming Free Trade Agreement negotiations
13-Jul-2023     Financial Express
Building upon the progress made, last year in November, India and the GCC countries expressed their commitment to pursuing a FTA and resumed negotiations.
India, EFTA agree for early conclusion of talks for free trade agreement
13-Jul-2023     Devdiscourse
India and the four-nation bloc EFTA have agreed for early conclusion of negotiations for a free trade agreement, which aims at increasing economic ties between the countries, the commerce ministry said.
Europe and the ‘new Washington consensus’
13-Jul-2023     Global Policy Watch
US National Security Advisor promoted a ‘new Washington consensus’ in a speech, which fits very well in the current debate in Brussels on economic and trade policy.
Goyal, Badenoch hold ‘frank discussions’ on difficult issues of India-UK FTA
13-Jul-2023     The Hindu Business Line
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and UK Secretary of State for Trade Kemi Badenoch achieved “considerable progress’’ during their frank discussions on various difficult issues related to the proposed India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Despite AfCFTA, Nigeria’s intra-African trade down 12%
12-Jul-2023     The Niche
Nigeria’s intra-African trade value dipped 11.95 per cent year-on-year (YoY) from N956.93 billion in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022) to N842.6 billion in Q1 2023, despite operation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) since 2021.
South Africa government officials head to US to save AGOA trade deal
12-Jul-2023     ZAWYA
A South African government delegation will embark on a charm offensive in the US this week aiming to defuse tensions with the African nation’s second-biggest trading partner over foreign policy and retain its preferential access to American markets.
New report shows how EU seafood extractivism will continue its complicity in the colonial occupation of Western Sahara
12-Jul-2023     Canary Workers' Co-op
An unlawful fisheries agreement is coming to an end, but a new report shows how the EU seafood industry will continue to be complicit in Morocco’s colonial occupation of Western Sahara. It’s doing this via importing octopus.