"We've thrown away 50 trade deals (totalling 70 countries). That sort of thing is what makes us prosperous, greatest in world"

India is negotiating a connectivity partnership with the EU which will connect people to people, trade, business, and technology in the coming times, said Sandeep Chakravorty, Joint Secretary (EW), Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday.

The tenth round of Australia – European Union Free Trade Agreement (Australia -EU FTA) negotiations took place virtually from 9 – 19 March. Through more than 60 video conferences, we made substantive progress on a range of issues across the FTA and engaged on our respective market access interests.

The Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo confirms to MEPs that a trade deal with the EU will be prioritised over one with the UK.

While Boris Johnson, the likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, takes his country down a path of diminished trade, the European Union is negotiating one of the largest free-trade agreements in the world. One really has to wonder what the "buccaneering" Brexiteers have to complain about.

The man who used to run the WTO says the EU single market, set up by Margaret Thatcher, is ‘the top league’.

Could a new House of Commons amendment put pressure back on Ireland over the backstop? What does no deal mean for a hard border? (Multiple choice). And how has Davos been tackling Brexit questions?

The EU's long-held insistence on level playing field provisions continues. How does the UK see its commitments to the Irish Protocol and the Political Declaration and what impact will deviation have on its credibility in other trade talks?

The agreement reached after years of negotiations is forecast to boost trade by more than £30 billion a year.

The European Council, representing the EU's 27 member countries, said it adopted the New Zealand pact, setting it up come into force "probably in early 2024" once Wellington ratifies it.

Voters promised a Brexit boon will consider bid to keep Nissan and Toyota as ‘ridiculous’, prime minister warned.

It has been described as “the most ambitious” and progressive trade deal ever signed by the EU, but what does CETA do? The historic agreement was signed into law in September 2017 by the EU and Canada, after years of negotiation and a protest campaign.

THE Dublin government is pressing Brussels and London to allow Northern Ireland businesses to export around the world using EU free trade agreements.

The European Union (EU) and ASEAN have agreed to restart the process of establishing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between them, said Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday (Jul 14).

The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations.

The European Union and Mercosur reached today a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade agreement.

Agreement will gradually eliminate tarrifs on goods and services over next five years

Brussels and Delhi tipped to open talks on free trade agreement within days – while UK admits ‘shared intent to begin work’ only.

The EU has leapt ahead of the UK in the pursuit of free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand after member states gave the green light for talks to start within weeks.

An A-Z of EU trade agreements from Albania to Zimbabwe.

The EU has in place, or is negotiating, trade agreements with countries and regions around the world.

The European Union and Japan will launch the world’s largest free trade zone early next year after their economic partnership cleared a final hurdle on Wednesday. Some 70 percent of European Parliament lawmakers backed the agreement that binds two economies accounting for about a third of global gross domestic product and signals their rejection of protectionism.

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The world's biggest such deal, it covers nearly a third of global GDP and 635 million people.

On 15 October, the Council adopted decisions on the signature of two agreements between the EU and Singapore: a free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement.

The EU and Ukraine have provisionally applied an Association Agreement since November 2014. As a part of this association agreement, a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) has been provisionally applied since January 2016. It reduces tariffs that European firms face when exporting to Ukraine.

Department for International Trade accused of ‘exaggerations and mistruths’.

Campaigners say claims by Liz Truss' Department for International Trade about UK-Japan trade deal benefits should be taken with "pinch of salt".

Britain could be pressured into bad deal to replace EU's agreement with East Asian country.

Alarm raised after Nissan decision to halt expansion of Sunderland car plant.

Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

Jonathan Vernon-Smith talks about manufacturing and brexit job losses with Jason J Hunter and Graham 'George' Gudgin.

Portugal has said it hopes to resume negotiations on trade and investment between the EU and India at a summit between EU leaders and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Porto on 8 May.

DR ROB DAVIDSON, director of Trade Deal Watch, says the UK's government new trade deal with Japan is far from a cause for celebration. It is the first sign of our poorer future following Brexit.

An over of the EU's ongoing trade negotiations with various countries and trade blocs. (Updated May 2019.)

The EU-Vietnam trade agreement, the “most modern and ambitious agreement ever concluded between the EU and a developing country”, got Parliament’s backing on Wednesday.

The South American customs pact Mercosur and the EU are “very close” to a far-reaching free trade accord, Brazil’s foreign minister said, a deal that would serve as a powerful counterpoint to growing tensions in global trade.

Thailand and the European Union (EU) have signed a new tariff rate quota deal, under which a predetermined number of the kingdom's goods can be exported to the bloc at pre-Brexit tax rates.

On 18 December, the EU and Kenya signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) which will boost trade in goods and create new economic opportunities, with targeted cooperation to enhance Kenya's economic development.

The European Union and Vietnam have recently finished negotiating a Trade Agreement and an Investment Protection Agreement.

1 February 2020 marks the first anniversary of the entry into force of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). In the first ten months following the implementation of the agreement, EU exports to Japan went up by 6.6% compared to the same period the year before.

Shortened trade talks will result in ‘flimsy’ deal, former British prime minister says

Joe Biden is more likely to focus on an EU-US trade deal than an agreement with the UK, Lord Kim Darroch suggested

All trade deals combined worth less than 50p per person a year, analysis of government figures shows.

A £5 billion EU continuity trade deal with Mexico, hailed by Whitehall as an “Aztec Brexit Boost”, has become obsolete – after the EU signed a more generous and comprehensive deal between its 27 members states and Mexico.

The European Union (EU) and Vietnam on Sunday signed a long-awaited free trade deal that will slash duties on almost all goods, an agreement that pushes back against a rising tide of global protectionism and hailed as a "milestone" by Brussels.

The EU is one of Vietnam’s biggest trading partners, accounting for nearly a one-fifth of the country’s exports.

As a European Union member, the UK is automatically part of about 40 trade agreements which the EU has with more than 70 countries. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal it would lose these trade deals immediately - worth about 11% of total UK trade.

AROUND the same time yesterday that Boris Johnson was urging MPs to back his post- Brexit trade deal with the EU, Brussels was tying up a deal of its own.

These estimated benefits are relative to 2018 when the UK (as part of the EU) had no FTA with Japan.