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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

free trade

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during the 'World in Progress Barcelona' Forum in Barcelona on October 14, 2024. (LLUIS GENE / AFP)
October 14, 2024, 5:14 pm
Spanish PM urges EU to accept bid to end free trade with Israel
Pedro Sanchez also calls on international community to stop selling arms to Israel after UNIFIL soldiers were hurt in ground offensive in Lebanon
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 10, 2022, 2:23 am
Liberman turns to US, European regulators to help ease Israel’s high cost of living
Finance minister asks head of US Federal Trade Commission to reduce competition barriers faced by Israeli importers, which lead to jacked up prices for consumers
By ToI Staff
Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbivai signs a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates in Dubai, Israel's first with an Arab country, May 31, 2022. From left to right: Ohad Cohen, director of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Israel Ministry of Economy and Industry, Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek, Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbibai, Emirati Minister of Economy Abdulla bin Touq Al-Marri, Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Emirati Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Al Khaja, and Juma Al Kait, director of the Emirati Foreign Trade Administration (Anuj Taylor, Strap Studios)
May 31, 2022, 12:03 pm
Israel, UAE ink ‘groundbreaking’ free trade deal, in 1st with Arab state
Economy Minister Orna Barvivai, Emirati ministers sign agreement in Dubai, marking ‘new era of trade and investment’ in region
By Ricky Ben-David
Prime Minister Netanyahu participated, via videoconference, at a event marking the ratification of a free-trade agreement between Israel and Colombia, August 10, 2020 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
August 10, 2020, 10:40 pm
Colombia will open trade office in Jerusalem, President Duque says
Announcement comes during event to mark ratification of bilateral free-trade agreement with Israel signed 7 years ago — the Latin American country’s first in the Middle East
By Raphael Ahren
Economy minister Eli Cohen arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 15, 2020, 9:17 am
Report: Israel asks UK to include West Bank and Golan in planned free trade deal
Israeli minister said to write to British government that most of Israel’s free trade deals cover these territories
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)
July 15, 2019, 11:21 pm
PM said eyeing free trade deal with South Korea, sans West Bank and Golan
Netanyahu hoping to visit Seoul by end of the month to finalize pact, which would exclude settlements and East Jerusalem, TV news reports
By Stuart Winer
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they prepare to deliver joint statements, after a meeting and a lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence, June 25, 2012. (AP/Jim Hollander, Pool/File)
February 12, 2019, 9:44 am
Israel and Iran both set to join Russia-led free trade zone
After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko in Jerusalem, January 21, 2019 (Haim Zach/GPO)
January 22, 2019, 4:36 am
Israel and Ukraine sign agreement for free trade
Netanyahu, Ukraine’s Poroshenko hail ‘historic’ deal, discuss cooperation in tech, health, science and more
By ToI Staff and AFP
Shipping containers seen at the Qingdao port in China's eastern Shandong province on April 6, 2018. (AFP)
April 6, 2018, 12:10 pm
China hits back after Trump threatens $100bn in tariffs
In tit for tat, Chinese commerce ministry says not seeking trade war but if pushed, will ‘take US on, until the end, at any cost’
By Andrew BEATTY and Poornima WEERASEKARA
Trailed by (left to right) Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks following a meeting on infrastructure at Trump Tower, August 15, 2017, in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
March 11, 2018, 11:49 am
After Cohn, Mnuchin positions himself as White House’s economic moderate
US treasury secretary argues ‘the president is not a protectionist’ after Trump imposes punishing steel and aluminum tariffs, sending top adviser out the door
By Virginie MONTET
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)
March 8, 2018, 11:18 pm
Trump calls outgoing economic adviser Gary Cohn a ‘globalist’
US president bids Cohn farewell using a controversial term that has taken on anti-Semitic connotations
By JTA
A T-shirt depicting US president Donald Trump for sale in NYC. December 23, 2016. (Serge Attal/FLASH90)
October 18, 2017, 10:50 pm
Israel, other allies irked by Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order
WTO members urge Washington to honor treaty which binds US to open competition to foreign markets
By AP
President Rivlin with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong in Jerusalem, March 29, 2016 (Mark Neiman/GPO)
March 30, 2016, 6:15 am
Israel, China announce NIS 260 million academic cooperation
3,000 Chinese to study in Israel; visiting Jerusalem, Chinese VP Liu Jindong starts talks on free-trade zone
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
President Rivlin with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong in Jerusalem, March 29, 2016 (Mark Neiman/GPO)
March 29, 2016, 2:10 pm
Israel and China enter talks over establishing free-trade zone
Visiting Jerusalem, Vice Premier Liu Jindong invites Israeli entrepreneurs to China; PM says cooperation will ‘astonish the world’
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
November 25, 2015, 8:11 am
Panama and Israel sign free trade agreement
Latin American nation’s first FTA with a Middle Eastern nation focuses on innovation and technology transfer
By JTA
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