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On 16 September 2024, high-level officials of the European Union and United States met to review how work has progressed under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) since the ministerial meeting of April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium.

Today, the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA) has entered into force. This is the first-ever EU agreement on investment facilitation. It aims to stimulate foreign investments needed to achieve sustainable development goals.

The European Commission welcomes the publication today of the text of an E-commerce Agreement negotiated in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The publication follows five years of dedicated negotiations by over 90 WTO Members.

Today, the European Commission’s trade department (DG Trade) has published a summary of responses received to the targeted consultation on the White Paper on Outbound Investments, alongside the actual responses received.

The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and the European Commission.

Today, the fifth meeting of the Joint Committee established under the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) heard that bilateral trade and investment relations continue to expand and deepen.

Statement on export controls and restrictions against Russia.

In the context of Russia’s ongoing unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU’s decision to deny the ECT’s protection to investments and investors from Russia and Belarus pre-emptively nullifies a potential way to challenge EU sanctions.

The UN ‘Mauritius’ Convention on transparency for ISDS marks a major step towards greater public access to documents and hearings, as well as the inclusion of civil society in disputes brought by investors against States under investment treaties.