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Nigeria strengthens partnership with UAE to boost economy
25-Jun-2024 The Guardian (Nigeria)
Discussions on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates are advancing.
Oil giant MOL initiates arbitration process against Croatian state
24-Jun-2024 Hungary Today
MOL has filed a new arbitration case with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Croatian state.
Chinese investor seizes Nigerian govt properties in UK
24-Jun-2024 Leadership
Two Nigerian properties located in the United Kingdom are on the verge of being taken over by a Chinese investor following an order granting the investor the right to enforce a $70 million investment treaty award against Nigeria.
Commerce ministry meeting on FTA with China on Tuesday
24-Jun-2024 The Financial Express
Dhaka and Beijing have already handed over draft joint feasibility-study reports on each other on the FTA between them.
Israel responded to the EU’s request to convene an Association Council. But not only on human rights
24-Jun-2024 EU News
Israel “is willing to consider” the invitation and “wants to negotiate the agenda,” a senior EU official confirms. But the distance between the parties on the agenda persists.
8th Saudi-US trade and investment council meeting held in Washington
24-Jun-2024 Arab News
The council’s goal is to monitor trade and investment relations in order to identify opportunities for expansion, work on removing trade and investment barriers.
India and Bangladesh to negotiate free trade pact
24-Jun-2024 Azerbaycan
India and Bangladesh have signed a series of new agreements pledging cooperation in various areas, from their shared border to space, and agreed to start negotiations on free trade during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s second visit to New Delhi this month.
Commerce ministry in talks to upgrade FTA with South Korea
24-Jun-2024 Hindustan Times
While India gave significant tariff concessions, there’s a push for South Korea to give more meaningful concessions, especially for competitive Indian products.
India, Cambodia discuss investment treaty, UPI collab: Commerce ministry
24-Jun-2024 Busines Standard
India and South East Asian nation Cambodia deliberated upon diversification of the trade basket by identifying new products, bilateral investment treaty, recognition of Indian pharmacopoeia and collaboration in the pharma sector.
The India-EFTA deal: A model for developing countries
21-Jun-2024 South Centre
Governments are shifting from investor-state dispute mechanisms to treaties that encourage and ease investment.
How investment treaties undermine the voices of local communities
20-Jun-2024 Erasmus Magazine
Dispute settlements in international investment law protect the rights of companies. However, they suppress the voice of local communities, as Stephanie Triefus found in her PhD research.
Iranian gov’t approves signing free trade law with Eurasian Economic Union
20-Jun-2024 News.az
The Iranian government approved signing a law on the creation of a free trade zone with the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), official representative of the Iranian government said.
EAEU-Iran FTA text (2023)
19-Jun-2024 Eurasian Economic Union
EAEU and UAE held third round of negotiations on economic partnership agreement
19-Jun-2024 Eurasian Economic Commission
From June 12 to 14, Dubai hosted the third round of negotiations on an economic partnership agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and the United Arab Emirates.
Indonesia, Chile commence talks on IC-CEPA
18-Jun-2024 Antara
Indonesia and Chile launched negotiations within the framework of the Indonesia-Chile Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to expand investment potential and opportunities in non-traditional markets, especially Latin America.
Chile’s RCEP application ’fresh sign’ supporting globalization
18-Jun-2024 Global Times
Chile has officially submitted an application to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
India to seek three-year carbon tax exemption for small businesses in upcoming free trade talks with EU
18-Jun-2024 MSN
India is likely to ask for a three-year exemption for its micro, small and medium enterprises from a proposed mandatory tariff on carbon-intensive imports in talks on a free trade deal with European Union negotiators
Romania wins EUR 330 mln ICSID arbitration lawsuit filed by owners of bankrupt insurer Astra
17-Jun-2024 Romania-Insider
Romania won the litigation case filed by the owner of the bankrupt insurer Astra Asigurari, Dutch-based Nova Group Investments controlled by the Adamescu family, according to a note published by the Romanian Ministry of Finance.
US-Central Asia TIFA signatories agreed to expand trade, economic and investment cooperation
17-Jun-2024 Kazinform
Prospects to diversify trade and expand investment cooperation were discussed by the representatives of the six countries – Kazakhstan, the US, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan – within TIFA.
Algeria hampers market access for European firms, EU initiates dispute settlement proceedings
17-Jun-2024 EU News
According to Brussels, the Algerian authorities would be contravening trade liberalization commitments under the Agreement EU-Algeria Association Agreement of 2005.