The United States’s envoy to the World Trade Organization Dennis Shea poured cold water on any hopes – if there were any left – that this administration would enter into negotiations on reforming and restoring the institution’s Appellate Body.
Author: Iana Dreyer
Enforcement regulation trilogue: institutions still wide apart
Views on what should be included in the coming revamp of a trade ‘enforcement regulation’ tabled by the European Commission late last year are still wide apart.
MEPs signal initial support for EU-US lobster deal
Spokespeople for the largest political groups in the European Parliament’s international trade committee are signalling endorsement for the ‘lobster for lighters’ deal inked by former European Union trade commissioner Phil Hogan and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
EU dual-use export control regime overhaul makes headway
European institutions hope they can soon finalise long drawn-out negotiations to expand the scope of the European Union’s 2009 dual-use item export control regulation to cover cyber-surveillance and human rights abuses. The latest version of the regulation foresees room to introduce restrictions on exports in emerging technologies.
Steel, WTO leader selection, Mercosur at trade minister’s table
Protecting the steel industry, what to do with the EU Mercosur trade pact and finding common ground in the WTO director-general selection process were among the main topics discussed by trade ministers in Berlin today at an informal meeting hosted by the German presidency of the Council.
WTO Corner: DG candidates, fish talks, services trade
Geographical considerations trump trade diplomacy experience in choice of shortlist for DG post
Week in Brussels: Pharma reshoring, textiles and GSP, Moldova meat
With input from Sarah Anne Aarup. This week we saw an EU-China summit deliver some progress on the lengthy path towards a bilateral investment agreement. It also revealed that rules-based international trade is Chefsache in the Commission, with president von der Leyen dwelling extensively on the matter in her State …
Names of three eliminated WTO candidates for director-general emerging
The World Trade Organization is yet to announce the result of a first round of ‘confessionals’ as part of an iterative elimination process aimed at nailing down one final winner. But the name of the three candidates who are to formally drop out of the race early to become the …
WTO Corner: China gets Section 301 win, DG candidate confessionals, fish talks
Welcome back to our WTO Corner column for regular updates on trade diplomacy in Geneva. Panel gives China a full win in Section 301 tariff case The majority of WTO law experts would have said this case was a no-brainer. The panellists appointed to judge on the matter thought so …
China investment agreement – breakthroughs on ‘level playing field’
If one is to believe Charles Michel, Angela Merkel and Ursula von der Leyen, today’s online Leaders’ Meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping was productive.
