France voted against, Belgium abstained. More on transatlantic relations throughout this week. Our latest EU-US pieces here.
Author: Iana Dreyer
Week ahead in EU trade: EU-US
Policy makers are clearly winding down for Easter: there aren’t many official meetings or trade agreement negotiating rounds to look ahead to during the next two weeks. MEPs are gathering for a last plenary session in Strasbourg ahead of elections next month to pass a very long list of pieces …
Week in Brussels: Russian WTO steel case against EU, procurement reciprocity, Korean labour
China and EU-US trade relations dominated the news this week. Here’s a selection of what else happened. EU to face new Russian WTO complaint over steel anti-dumping duties This week in Geneva, Russia requested a panel in a dispute filed in February 2017 against the EU’s anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled …
Cambodian rice producers sue European Union over rice safeguards
In January 2019, the European Union reintroduced restrictive quotas on imports of rice from Cambodia and Myanmar following a complaint from Italy that these were harming its own rice growers. Cambodian rice farmers won’t just let that pass. So-called Indica rice from the two countries is now subject to a …
In brief: EU ambassadors agree to adopt EU US negotiation mandates
It’s not entirely clear France is on board plans to greenlight negotiations on goods trade liberalisation with the United States. But after redrafting the text tabled by the European Commission last January to accommodate the French, capitals are now ready to go ahead with giving the commission the green light …
Blog: Are Airbus-related US tariffs revenge for Boeing or standard operating procedure?
“Maybe it’s just another opportunity for President Trump to impose tariffs”, Chad Bown from the Peterson Institute of Economics tweeted in reference to the US’s decision to table tariffs on billions of Euros’ worth of European products. Robert McDougall, a former Canadian trade diplomat, retorted: “The announcement and eventual imposition …
China ready to discuss overhaul of WTO subsidy rules
“Negotiations were difficult but ultimately fruitful”, concluded Donald Tusk after Tuesday’s European Union-China summit in Brussels. The two sides achieved their main objective for their meeting, namely to come up with a joint statement that is meaningful enough to EU capital and commits both sides to specific actions. “In today’s …
WTO report on Russia-Ukraine transit to test future of trading system
Russia and the United States rarely agree on anything in global politics. But Washington was the only World Trade Organization member that supported Moscow in a highly-politicised legal argument at the organisation’s dispute settlement body that many see as entailing systemic ramifications for the multilateral trading system.
Week Ahead in EU Trade: China, Korea, Japan, steel anti-dumping, Airbus
This week it’s China that will be mainly in focus on the EU’s trade agenda. Trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström will travel to South Korea and Japan to take stock of trade relations. In Geneva, the work of the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body will resume having been interrupted over …
Week in Brussels: Australia and New Zealand FTAs, Cambodian textiles, US-Japan-EU trilateral
This week was dominated by news on European trade defence policy and by a shift in sentiment in Britain over a customs union with the EU – with ramifications for the Department for International Trade. Other bits of news below. EU-Australia negotiations: third round The EU and Australia held a …
