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Wingtech pursues international arbitration against Dutch state over Nexperia seizure
12-Jan-2026 Reuters
China’s Wingtech is seeking international arbitration in pursuit of up to $8 billion in damages following the Netherlands’ seizure of chipmaker Nexperia.
The trade war goes digital
6-Jan-2026 CCPA
Notes on how trade agreements prevent Canada from exercising digital sovereignty.
Trump administration fires warning shots over Big Tech regulations
6-Jan-2026 Politico
Senior officials are freezing talks and hinting at trade probes amid ongoing discussions with the UK, EU and South Korea.
Trump’s deals with Latin American countries advance Big Tech’s global agenda
22-Dec-2025 Public Citizen
Continuing the spree of trade agreements being negotiated by the Trump administration, November saw the announcement of four more agreements — with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Big Tech presses for expanded giveaways in upcoming USMCA review
19-Dec-2025 Public Citizen
New analysis of public comments by lobbyists for the tech industry shows that Big Tech is aggressively pushing for even more deregulatory giveaways, despite the agreement already tilting heavily in their favor.
Trump trade rep targets Canada’s beer and dairy rules in new CUSMA review conditions
19-Dec-2025 CBC
US Trade Representative said the US will take aim at two major Canadian policies: the Online Streaming Act, which brought online platforms like Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube under Canadian broadcasting rules, and the supply-managed dairy sector, among others.
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.
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.
US-UK trade deal hits stumbling block
15-Dec-2025 The New York Times
The US government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.
Civil society letter to ASEAN member states on the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) Negotiations
11-Dec-2025 Third World Network
People’s movement are express deep concern and disappointment at the lack of public participation, transparency, and open government processes in the ongoing negotiations of the Digital Economy Framework Agreement to the ASEAN member states.
PAPSS COWRY Lagos 2025: Africa stakes its claim on the future of payments
9-Dec-2025 Technext
Since its public debut in January 2022, PAPSS has matured rapidly, now connecting 19 countries, 160 commercial banks, and 15 national switches, allowing cross-border transactions to clear in local currencies within a maximum of 120 seconds.
Taiwan, Japan ink pact on digital trade cooperation
5-Dec-2025 Taiwan Today
The agreement includes more comprehensive regulations spanning duty-free cross-border electronic transmission, transnational data transmission, paperless trade, personal data.
India, Israel enter deeper trade and tech ties with FTA talks: Report
1-Dec-2025 IANS
India and Israel are strengthening their relations centred on trade talks, technology partnerships and strategic coordination, according to a new report.
Beyond tariffs Silicon Valley’s war on digital sovereignty
28-Nov-2025 TNI
Trump’s consolidation with Silicon Valley signals a reconfiguration of digital political economy, where US trade policy, technological dominance, and data governance converge.
Banking on data
27-Nov-2025 TNI
How the world’s tax havens became the data centres for the digital economy.
US demands ’balanced’ EU digital rules before it cuts steel tariffs
25-Nov-2025 Reuters
The United States demanded that the European Union make its regulation of the tech sector more "balanced" in exchange for a reduction of US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the bloc.
Google, AfCFTA to train 7,500 African SMEs on AI, digital trade skills
23-Nov-2025 Business Post
Google and theAfCFTA Secretariat have launched the AfCFTA Digital Inclusion & Entrepreneurship Programme that will train thousands of SMEs across Nigeria and the African continent on critical AI and digital skills to expand their businesses and trade continent-wide.
EU adopts Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore despite warnings: a setback for digital rights and democratic oversight
20-Nov-2025 EDRi
This decision weakens the Union’s capacity to safeguard privacy, data protection, and accountability over software systems, at a time when deregulation pressures are increasing across Europe.
The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: gambling away our digital sovereignty
19-Nov-2025 The Left in the European Parliament
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
The tech taxes at the heart of Trump’s tariff war
19-Nov-2025 Politico
Foreign countries want to take a cut of the proceeds from digital services provided by American companies, and passed their own laws to do so... and now the US is using trade negotiations to pressure those governments into rolling them back.