More Trade News in Brief Week 37 (7 – 13 September 2015)

New DTA Protocols

Switzerland has signed protocols to its double taxation agreements (DTAs) with Norway and Albania.

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EFTA and Georgia Start FTA Talks

The member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Georgia held a first round of negotiations towards a free trade agreement (FTA).

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New Zealand Seeks Signature of Gulf FTA

New Zealand is looking for a free trade agreement with the Gulf States.

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News about FTAs

 

* Australia signs FTA with Japan

 

Japan and Australia signed a historic free trade agreement.

 

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* South Korea & Australia Inked FTA

 

South Korea and Australia signed a comprehensive, high level FTA as per their comments.

 

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* Mexico & Panama – FTA

 

Mexico and Panama signed a free trade agreement (FTA). Panama’s desire is to join latter to the Pacific Alliance (PA) trade bloc.

 

Read more here.

 

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* Mercosur & EFTA to Start FTA Talks

 

EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) and Mercosur member states (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela) will start discussions on a free trade agreement (FTA) in the coming months.

 

Find more following the link.

 

 

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* OECD: Global Economy Recovering at Moderate Pace

 

On the last Economic Outlook, OECD concluded that the global economy is expected to continue expanding at a moderate pace.

 

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* Liechtenstein & Isle of Man Sign OECD Multilateral Tax Convention

 

Liechtenstein & Isle of Man join the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, a multilateral agreement initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Council of Europe to tackle tax evasion and avoidance between its signatories.

 

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* Canada & NZ Ratify Multilateral Tax Convention

 

Canada and  New Zealand have ratified the multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.

 

Please follow the link for more.

 

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* WTO – No Global Trade DealEven the WTO’s members have come “very close to fully agreed texts”, the negotiations on the first global trade deal in the organization’s history come to a dead end.

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* SESAR – Single European Sky

 

European Commission adopted a regulation establishing governance and incentive mechanisms to facilitate the effective and timely deployment of SESAR.

 

SESAR is the EU’s project that aims at modernising the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system.

 

Please read more here and here.

 

You can find more about SESAR here.

 

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* International Code of Direct Selling

 

ICC released the revised International Code of Direct Selling which was developed in close co-operation with the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA).

 

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* WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

 

Liechtenstein became the first WTO member to ratify the amended version of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA).

 

Read more here.

 

Austria and Luxembourg Block EU’s Plans on Savings Tax Agreements

17 May 2012

 

Austria and Luxembourg have rejected the European Commission’s plans to negotiate new and stronger savings tax agreements with Switzerland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino.

 

The European Commission’s desire is to conclude a treaty and strengthen common instruments with third countries against tax evasion, to abolish banking secrecy and to ensure an automatic exchange of data with third states.