The EU and Argentina ended six years of disagreements over the South American country’s exports of biodiesel to the bloc with a compromise that averts years of litigation in courts.
Author: Iana Dreyer
EU-US trade talks – a roundup
The European Commission released a report on the state of play in ongoing talks with Washington to ease trade restrictions. Entitled EU-US Relations: Interim Report on the work of the Executive Working Group, the document offers details on the state of discussions on regulatory work, but not much else. But …
Commission decision on US soy comes in handy for biodiesel producers
The ongoing trade ‘negotiations’ between the European Union and the United States are a good opportunity to try to resolve old gripes that the US holds against the EU’s import regime. One of the irritants the European Commission has tried to defuse under the shadow of a US threat to …
Flash: Advocate General says CETA investment court compatible with EU law
More analysis shortly. Here the announcement.
Week ahead in EU trade: investment court, Brexit, WTO disputes
There will be three main items to watch this week in EU trade: a European Court of Justice preliminary assessment of the EU’s Investment Court System, the direction of travel for Brexit, and WTO disputes. The fate of the European Union’s plans to set up bilateral an multilateral investment tribunals …
Week in Brussels: Vietnam FTA, Korea labour dispute, Indonesia FTA update
It’s been an intense week! The EU was involved in the launch of plurilateral negotiations on e-commerce (Jennifer will have more) in Switzerland. That will be a boost to the World Trade Organization. Southeast Asia also featured highly on the agenda as a ministerial meeting was held this week amid rows …
In brief: US auto tariffs will be forthcoming – expert
There have been media reports that EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström, speaking at Davos today, appeared to be confident that the United States would not slap tariffs on imports of European autos on national security grounds. The US is preparing a report on the national security implications of car imports …
Flash: Trade committee gives green light to Singapore trade and investment pacts
The European Parliament’s international trade committee voted in favour of the EU Singapore trade agreement and a separate investment protection agreement this morning in Brussels. The majority for the two deals was comparatively low, with 25 MEPs voting in favour of the trade pact and 11 against. Votes for the …
EU-US autos: Demarty sees possible partial compromise in coming talks
The European Commission’s director-general for trade thinks a partial deal on auto tariffs is feasible with the United States. Jean-Luc Demarty does not expect any tariff liberalisation accord with the US to be finalised before this year’s European elections. The EU and the US are expected to launch trade negotiations …
Comment: EU trade dispute settlement will increasingly go bilateral
Seeing that the World bTrade Organization survives, and that its dispute settlement function survives, remains independent and keeps is ‘bite’, is one of the EU’s current strategic priorities. In practice, the WTO dispute settlement system will weaken regardless of EU efforts to amend it, and the bloc will increasingly take …
