UAE + Ecuador eye CEPA agreement: The UAE’s Foreign Trade Minister Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi and his Ecuadorian counterpart Sonsoles Garcia inked a joint statement announcing plans to kick off negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between both countries, Wam reports.

REMEMBER- The UAE signed an economic and trade agreement with Colombia last week, one day after inking another with Costa Rica, the latest in a series of agreements aimed at boosting the UAE’s non-oil foreign trade.

Tajikistan is eyeing logistics investments at Iran’s Chabahar Port, Tasnim reports. The landlocked country’s Transport Minister Shayesta Moradzadeh met with Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Ali Akbar Safaei, highlighting her country’s keenness to invest at the port. Tajik investors will be able to leverage the port for transit trade via a logistics compound at the facility, Safaei said.

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