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AfCFTA: Rules of Origin for Digital Products - new approaches in the Digital Trade Protocol's ROO Annex

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US: Deals with Cambodia and Malaysia - thoughts on services MFN, digital trade triggers, and alignment with US trade measures
Last weekend the United States (US) signed two new trade agreements - one with Cambodia and one with Malaysia. I’m a bit late to comment but there are a…
 • Devon Whittle
India-UK CETA: Interesting things in Services, Digital Trade, and the Security Exception
In an era of “napkin deals”, it’s nice to see some countries still doing the hard work of entering into comprehensive, concrete and legal binding trade…
 • Devon Whittle
CPTPP: Six suggestions for potential wins in Australia's chairing year
We are now about halfway into Australia’s year chairing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, so here are six…
 • Devon Whittle
FTAs: "Forward Most-Favoured-Nation" treatment on the table in India-US negotiations
Reuters reported last week that India may be considering offering a “forward most-favoured-nation” (MFN) clause in the trade agreement it is negotiating…
 • Devon Whittle
RCEP: Insiders' views of the RCEP negotiations - interviews with RCEP negotiators
For those following trade agreement negotiations, I recently came across an open access book published in February that will likely be of interest. It…
 • Devon Whittle
US: Initial reactions to Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs - minimal retaliation, lots of negotiations, early signs of cooperation
A week is now a long time in trade policy and for the past week I’ve been tracking the various reactions to the US’s so-called reciprocal tariffs (now…
 • Devon Whittle
US: Reactions to Trump's so-called 'reciprocal' tariffs - retaliations, disputes, and other comments
I did not intend to do two Trump-related posts in a row, but I have been tracking the recent tariff announcements (as have many others) and I thought it…
 • Devon Whittle
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