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The United Kingdom and Côte d’Ivoire signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Thursday, maintaining existing trade arrangements.
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Zimbabwe has ratified an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the United Kingdom in a deal expected to promote reciprocal trade concessions between Harare and London.
On the eve of a European Union summit that British Prime Minister had set as a deadline to seal a post-Brexit trade agreement, talks remained in a deep rut over fundamental differences on the issues of state aid and fisheries.
The signing of the agreement will reportedly take place on October 23. The Japanese parliament will then have until year-end to ratify it.
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Tokyo has said it is aiming for the deal to come into force on Jan. 1, after reaching a broad trade agreement with Britain on Sept. 11.
As crunch week begins, officials unclear progress will be made. Talks to resume on Monday ahead of key EU summit on Thursday.
Ukraine and Britain have signed an agreement on political cooperation, free trade, and strategic partnership.
In the SACUM-UK EPA, commitments on tariffs for both the UK and SACUM have been transitioned from the SADC-EU EPA without changes.
The European Union has no plans to offer concessions to Boris Johnson before next week’s Brexit deadline, betting that the UK prime minister won’t make good on threats to walk away from trade negotiations if he doesn’t get what he wants.
The economic partnership agreement between Japan and the UK will maintain preferential tariffs for industrial products manufactured with components made in the European Union in a win for Japanese automakers.
Ukraine-UK agreement on political cooperation, free trade and strategic partnership, which will be signed in London, contains hundreds of pages.
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Australia is far from happy with its arrangements with the EU and is pushing for the better market access that only a fully-fledged trade deal with the wealthy 27-member bloc would bring.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the head of the EU’s executive, Ursula von der Leyen, agreed to step up Brexit talks to close “significant gaps” barring a new trade partnership.
The backdrop to all of this is that trade talks between London and Brussels are entering their final phase.
The United Kingdom said it has Vietnam’s support to join a trans-Pacific trade deal, a boost for the country facing the dire economic impacts of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.
They have both emphasised the need for trade talks to mitigate medicine supply chain disruptions following Brexit.
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European Union negotiators have signaled that they are willing to begin work on a joint legal text of a trade agreement with the UK.
