Tag: free trade

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  UK/South Korea sign in principle, first a post-Brexit free trade agreement

  

  The UK and South Korea have signed an in principle free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox signed the deal with his South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in Seoul.

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• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Merkel at Harvard deplores attacks on climate change, free trade, condemns walls and lies

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged the world to do “everything humanly possible” to combat climate change and pledged to do her part. “Climate change poses a threat to our planet's natural resources,” Merkel said in her commencement address delivered at Harvard University in the United States. “It and the resulting crises are caused by humans.”

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Mexico and Brazil agree on a free trade for light vehicles

  

  Mexico’s government said it had reached an agreement with Brazil on the free trade of light vehicles, subject to a 40% regional content requirement, paving the way for more open commerce between Latin America’s two biggest economies.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  Mercosur largest economies ‘inconveniences’ delaying trade accord with EU

  

  The existence of ‘inconveniences’ with Mercosur largest economies is delaying reaching a trade agreement with the European Union, according to Germany’s Ambassador before the government of Paraguay, Claude Robert Ellner.

• Monday, March 7th 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Peru and EU to sign free trade agreement in mid March

  

  Peru and the European Union will be signing the final documents for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in mid March, said Peruvian Trade and Tourism Minister Eduardo Ferreyros in Lima.

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:40 UTC

  Mercosur and India discussing expansion of current tariffs agreement

  

  Indian Industry and Commerce Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that India and Mercosur are discussing the possibility to expand a current agreement on tariffs.

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  South Korea confirms interest in free trade talks with Mercosur

  

  South Korea, Asia’s fourth largest economy is seeking to launch bilateral trade talks with Mercosur in a move to deepen links with Latinamerica according to a report from the Yonhap news agency.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:26 UTC

  Egypt to sign free trade agreement at Mercosur summit in Argentina

  

  Egypt will be signing a free trade agreement with Mercosur during the group’s presidential summit scheduled for next August 3 in Argentina, announced Friday the Egyptian trade minister on Friday.