The EU has won a WTO dispute it brought in 2014 against the United States related to subsidies to Boeing, the aircraft producer. Boeing’s rival Airbus now wants an end to WTO dispute sagas. The WTO panel report does not concede victory to the EU for all subsidies the legality of which …
Author: Iana Dreyer
WTO panel on Chinese export restrictions established
Despite Chinese misgivings, the EU is pressing ahead with its dispute against China’s exports restrictions on a variety of raw materials and metals. China initially refused to establish a dispute settlement panel, arguing its new 2017 export quotas were in line with WTO law and aimed at protecting the environment. …
EU asks for ‘reasonable period of time’ to implement Argentina WTO ruling
The EU was rebuffed by the WTO’s Appellate Body, which upheld a dispute panel ruling stating that the EU’s antidumping duties on imports of biodiesel from Argentina were illegal. The Appellate Body criticised the way the EU calculates and construes input costs for the products under investigation. The matter …
Russia requests establishment of panel on EU antidumping measures
Russia has requested that the WTO establish a dispute settlement panel to settle a dispute it launched in 2015 on antidumping measures in the EU concerning fertilisers and metals products (background here). At stake are the EU’s so-called cost-adjustment methodologies, which have been rebuffed by the WTO in a …
Brexit: New DTI Chief Economist hails from transport and agriculture background
London has nominated a new chief economist and head of analysis to its Department for International Trade. Richard Price was previously chief executive of the UK’s Office of Rail and Road, the country’s transport regulator. Prior to that he was chief economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs …
Environmental Goods Agreement talks near uncertain endgame
The seventeen WTO members participating in the plurilateral Environmental Goods Agreement negotiations are trying to reach a final deal on a list of ‘green goods’ slated for tariff eliminations. It is not going to be easy. The green goods list builds on an original group of 54 product lines identified by APEC. A final …
Will the European Parliament’s Turkey accession vote jeopardise the customs union update?
The European Parliament has made sure there is even more bad blood in the EU-Turkey relationship than already is. On Thursday (24 November 2016), 77 percent of MEPs called to a halt to recently re-initiated EU membership accession negotiations as part of a non binding resolution. The accession talks, initiated in 2005, but …
CETA ratification in EU Parliament to face delay
The European Parliament intended to rush through the ratification of the much-contested CETA agreement before Christmas. After having rejected a motion for a resolution by rebel centre-left MEPs to put CETA to scrutiny at the Court of Justice on Wednesday, the hope of a swift ratification faded quickly. There …
Trump world hovers over next steps in EU China investment and trade moves
Germany’s prosperous port city of Hamburg is the host of a German-European-Chinese summit, the Hamburg Summit 2016 this week. The swanky event takes place against a backdrop of rising questions over international stability, US-China relations, and investment frictions in EU-China relations. A city open to China Hamburg is positioning …
We’re too busy! says Commission to Taiwan
With the giant TTIP and TiSA negotiations off the agenda in the coming months and possibly years one would believe trade officials in the European Commission would have some extra time on their hands to deal with other negotiations and trade files. Yet there’s one file they are clearly …
