Trade agreements offer companies greater freedom and opportunity to do business internationally; they should also place obligations on companies to act in support of human rights and the environment.

This paper proposes a method of quantifying the additional fixed cost to exporters of taking advantage of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Such additional fixed costs can be measured by the ratio of ...

EPA（ Economic Partnership Agreement ：経済連携協定）、FTA（ Free Trade Agreement ：自由貿易協定）とは、特定の国や地域同士で、貿易や投資を促進するための条約です。 輸出入にかかる関税の撤廃・削減や、サービス業を行う際の規制の緩和・撤廃など、幅広い分野での経済関係の強化を目的とします。

This paper examines the impacts of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on commodity trade, with a particular focus on trade creation and diversion effects. Based on the estimation of the gravity equation ...

The EU is also eager to cooperate with a vast trans-Pacific free trade agreement involving Japan and 10 other nations, plus Britain that joined the accord in 2023. Some inside the bloc have called for ...

Norwegian power trader Einar Aas has reached an agreement with creditors, including Nasdaq Clearing, after his default in September forced members of the clearing house to stump up around 100 ...

経済連携協定（EPA：Economic Partnership Agreement）とは、2以上の国（又は地域）の間で、自由貿易協定（FTA：Free Trade Agreement）の要素（物品及びサービス貿易の自由化）に加え、貿易以外の分野、例えば知的財産の保護や投資、政府調達、二国間協力等を含めて締結される包括的な協定です。

[DOC] While trade agreements impose binding obligations on governments, it is private sector employers who determine, in the first instance, whether labor rights are a reality in the private sector ...

原油価格が急落している。原油先物市場の指標価格であるWTI（翌月渡し）は日本時間25日未明に1バレル＝64.00ドルを記録。イスラエルとイランをめぐる中東情勢の改善を受け、2日間で約14％安となった。アメリカのドナルド・トランプ大統領が24日朝に発表した両国の停戦合意は引き続き維持されているもようで、投資家心理は落ち着いている。トランプ氏はイランから中国への原油輸出を認める方向性も示しており、原油 ...

Cameroon's national oil refining company, SONARA, has reached a deal with oil trader Vitol to restructure its commercial debt towards the Dutch energy and commodity trading company, the country's ...

Ahead of the last political trilogue on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on Wednesday 13 December 2023, a group of businesses including IKEA, ALDI SÜD, Novo Nordisk, Tchibo, ...