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RCEP envoys make progress on trade deal in Kobe but complexity threatens timeline

6-Mar-2017 The Japan Times

Disagreements over issues range from how to handle intellectual property rights to tariff reductions

Arbitrator rules Egypt must compensate EMG

4-Mar-2017 Globes

The international arbitration panel ruled that Egypt failed to protect the Sinai pipeline from terrorists.

Let’s talk investment treaty before free trade pact, Canada tells India

4-Mar-2017 The Hindu

Canada is throwing its weight behind an early “progressive” bilateral investment treaty with India before it concludes a bilateral free trade agreement to ensure a stable and predictable environment for its investors.

Taiwan seeks FTA-like bilateral agreement with India

4-Mar-2017 Business Standard

Taiwan is seeking a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)-like bilateral agreement with India to boost trade and investments even as its companies are looking to relocate some of their manufacturing facilities from mainland China to India and Southeast Asia.

S. Korea, MERCOSUR to launch trade talks in first half

4-Mar-2017 Yonhap

South Korea and the South American trade block MERCOSUR will launch their official negotiations on a trade pact before the first half of 2017.

The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues

4-Mar-2017 SEATINI

Tanzania is reluctant to sign and ratify the EPA raising a number of issues including the implications of the EPA on EAC’s development in general and industrialisation in particular.

The African Union Commission is hosting the 5th meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF)

4-Mar-2017 SAT PR

The meeting will be adopting the modalities that will guide the negotiations in Tariff liberalization and Trade in Services liberalization

Canada’s free trade agreements strategy

4-Mar-2017 Global Trade

With EU FTA completed, a pivot to Asia

A new NAFTA, but not necessarily a better one

3-Mar-2017 Open Canada

NAFTA has its fair share of critics who want to see it updated. But if Trump has his way, a re-negotiated agreement may prove disappointing.

RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines

3-Mar-2017 MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raises concerns over provisions under negotiation in the RCEP investment chapter that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people

India refuses to accede to European Union requests; post-March, investors to have no legal cover

2-Mar-2017 Financial Express

Fresh investments by European companies in India and vice versa after April 1 won’t enjoy legal protection under any bilateral arrangement, as India has decided not to accede to requests by the European Union.

U.S. to negotiate ‘new, better’ trade deals with key economies: report

2-Mar-2017 Japan Times

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will negotiate “new and better trade deals” with “countries in key markets” to provide a freer and fairer deal for American workers and businesses.

Canada Trade Min to fast-track FTA talks during India visit

2-Mar-2017 Business Standard

Canada’s Minister of International Trade Francois-Philippe Champagne is expected to accelerate the negotiation process of the proposed free trade pact with India.

Pakistan, Turkey free trade pact in May

2-Mar-2017 The Nation

The long-awaited Free Trade Agreement will pave way for the South Asian nation to enter Turkey’s agriculture and pharmaceutical market.

RCEP, an attack on food sovereignty, must be junked – PCFS

2-Mar-2017 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

RCEP will be harmful to developing countries’ struggle for industrialization, access to cheaper medicines, quality social services, and protection of the environment