News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
It’s been en eventful week, with the Appellate Body disappearing and the English (and Welsh) voting to “get Brexit done”. Here are other bits of news of potential interest for EU trade. Council Conclusions: green trade ok but at low cost and with level playing field Heads of government are …
The measure has already been announced this summer. Now it is clearly on its way. One day after the demise of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, Brussels is pulling out its legislative claws in a move aimed at defending its commercial interests if judicial disputes end ‘in …
Safeguards, anti-subsidy investigations, case re-openings, China, Egyptian glass fibre. What has really driven European Union trade defence policy in 2019?
Brussels has eagerly been waiting for the new European Commission’s ‘Green Deal, a flagship initiative announced by its new president Ursula von der Leyen. Coordinated by Vice President Frans Timmermans, the new compact of measures aims to bring together various strands of EU policy to fulfil the EU’s goal to …
There was relief in the World Trade Organization as members agreed to extend for six months the expiring two-year 1998 moratorium on duties on electronic transmission across borders. That’s how low expectations have come to be as the organisation sinks into deep crisis. A feature of that crisis includes being …
This week will be a critical week for the future of the World Trade Organization, the European Union and the United Kingdom (in all this). WTO crisis in focus WTO Ambassadors are meeting for the General Council in Geneva. The gathering comes at a moment of deep crisis in the …
It’s been an eventful week on trade – with a deepening WTO crisis, some movement on agriculture, continued uncertainty over the EU Vietnam FTA ratification…. New low in WTO and transatlantic trade relations This week has provided fodder for around-the-clock quotation-chasing media as developments shifted by the day, if not …
The Word Trade Organization was not killed off . But it was put on life support for another year as members in Geneva caved to the United States after it threatened to withhold approval of the next two-year budget for the organisation. Bloomberg reported this afternoon that WTO members accepted …
World Trade Organization member countries have pledged to at least make an effort to agree new disciplines on domestic agricultural subsidies at the Organization’s ministerial meeting in Kazakhstan next June. Negotiators will begin work in January 2020 on a possible new text for agreement at the Nur-Sultan ministerial, bolstered by …
The arrest of a Saigon-based trade agreement critic and independent journalist complicates the European Parliament’s final preparations to ratify a landmark trade agrement and an accompanying investment protection accord with Vietnam.
