Malaysia has requested WTO dispute consultations with the European Union regarding measures adopted by the EU and its member states affecting palm oil and palm crop-based biofuels. The request was circulated to WTO members on 19 January.

On Tuesday, Parliament adopted new rules allowing the EU to use countermeasures in trade disputes when arbitration is blocked.

Taiwan on Tuesday said it seeks a bilateral investment agreement with the UK and called on London to enter into negotiations on free trade.

The dust has begun to settle on the new UK-EU trade deal, where initial pre-Christmas relief has quickly given way to widespread reports of disruption. The deal achieved tariff-free trade, but the UK’s exit from the single market and customs union has heralded large – and abrupt – changes to the way the UK trades with Europe.

2021 is a crucial year. The UK is back as an independent trading nation, with a lower, simpler and greener tariff regime and deals done covering 63 nations plus the EU – securing £897 billion of trade.

Inaugural meeting of the Vietnamese-German Joint Economic Committee

One-third of China's foreign trade goods to be tariff-free after deal implementation

The period under review covered the period after June 2015 corresponding to the period of Modi rule in the country

The European Union will seek an extension to the deadline by which the free trade agreement with the UK must be ratified.

Mexico, Chile and Peru, three of the 11 member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) are applying significant tax reductions to Vietnamese goods in accordance with the agreement.