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Withdraw from new bilateral investment treaty with Israel, rights groups and citizens urge Indian govt
17-Sep-2025 The Wire
Condemning the recently-inked India-Israel Bilateral Investment Treaty and terming it a clear sign of India’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, nearly 100 rights organisations and individuals have urged the Indian government to withdraw from the treaty.
Cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement
17-Sep-2025 CJPME
The Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement treats Palestinian land as though it were “Israeli,” rewarding illegal settlements and giving cover to Israel’s ceaseless colonial expansion.
US, Canada and Mexico kick off trade pact consultations
17-Sep-2025 Financial Post
The US, Canada and Mexico are set to formally begin consultations ahead of the high-stakes review of their regional USMCA trade accord next year, the US and Mexico announced.
NZ courts Fiji to join PACER Plus amid Fijian concerns over economic impact
17-Sep-2025 RNZ
New Zealand is courting Fiji to join a regional free trade and partnership agreement, but Fijian government officials say the island nation will decide whether to join the agreement by the end of the year.
Mercosur, EFTA sign FTA in Rio de Janeiro
17-Sep-2025 MercoPress
The Southern Common Market (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) and the EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) signed a Free Trade Agreement, creating a zone of nearly 300 million people with a combined GDP of over US$4.3 trillion.
Map: Big Tech’s targets in Trump’s secret tariff negotiations
16-Sep-2025 Public Citizen
A new analysis maps the wide array of policies around the world on data privacy, AI accountability, digital taxes, and anti-monopoly laws that Big Tech industry lobbyists have urged US trade negotiators to target.
India in talks with nearly a dozen nations for trade agreement including US, EU, Australia
16-Sep-2025 The Tribune
According to official updates from the commerce ministry, the country has accelerated discussions on free trade agreements with key partners across multiple regions.
First Russian oil, now American corn: How US is using tariffs against India
16-Sep-2025 NDTV
After weeks of diplomatic friction, Trump said his administration is continuing negotiations to address trade barriers with India and that he would talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a sign of a thaw in the India-US ties.
Early harvest deal a target as India, EU speed up FTA talks
16-Sep-2025 Financial Express
India and the EU are fast-tracking FTA talks with an interim “early harvest” deal likely by year-end. With 60–65% chapters agreed, both sides push for market access, visa relaxations, and clarity on carbon tax exemptions amid global trade uncertainty.
India, US to hold trade talks today: Breakthrough expected in free trade agreement amid Trump’s tariffs
16-Sep-2025 India TV News
India and the United States will hold a day-long talk on the India-US bilateral trade deal in New Delhi on Tuesday, which was impacted after the imposition of 50 per cent import tariffs by the US on Indian goods.
India, Eurasian Economic Union bloc ink terms of reference to launch trade pact talks
15-Sep-2025 CNBC TV18
India and the Eurasian Economic Union signed terms to start FTA negotiations, aiming to diversify export markets and boost trade.
CARICOM, Colombia to expand South-South Co-operation
15-Sep-2025 St Vincent Times
CARICOM and Colombia trade negotiators concluded the second round of negotiations to update the CARICOM-Colombia Trade and Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement.
Mercosur-EFTA deal ready to be signed next week
15-Sep-2025 MercoPress
The comprehensive understanding covers various sectors, including trade in goods and services, intellectual property, government procurement, and sustainable development.
Mercosur-UAE FTA 80% through
15-Sep-2025 MercoPress
According to Asunción’s Foreign Ministry, talks have progressed by 80% across 15 chapters, which include areas such as trade in goods, services, and rules of origin.
Call for signatures: We say no to AfCFTA – trade justice for people, not corporations!
15-Sep-2025 bilaterals.org
As civil society groups across Africa, trade unions, farmers’ associations, local communities, and environmental, feminist, and youth movements, we raise our voices in collective opposition to the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Cross-border data flows and free trade agreements
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Provisions that restrict the regulation of cross-border data flows can limit the ability of States to implement domestic measures to protect the privacy and security of consumer data.
Source code disclosure and free trade agreements
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Consumer rights are at risk when FTAs limit the ability of countries, their regulatory and oversight agencies, or appropriate third parties to monitor the software being imported into their territories.
Trump administration must choose between Big Tech and US sovereignty as industry seeks to weaponize trade policy to attack data security, privacy policies in other nations that US has also adopted
12-Sep-2025 Rethink Trade
Congress and federal agencies and US states have adopted the same sorts of data security and privacy policies that Big Tech lobbyists are pushing President Trump to attack as the “illegal trade barriers.”
The tech lobbying is coming from inside the house
12-Sep-2025 The American Prospect
Emails from the US trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
US ties trade deal with India to abandoning Russian oil
12-Sep-2025 RBC-Ukraine
The US may strike a trade deal with India as soon as it stops buying oil from Russia, states US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.