News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, May 4, 2025
This has been a big transatlantic (here and here) and Brexit (here, here, here and here) week. But it’s also been a big week for other EU trade topics. EU and South Africa reset The EU-South Africa summit got the two sides talking again – not least on all matters trade …
The services sector accounts for 80% of the UK’s economy. Services industries are Britain’s export success story, and the EU’s single market is the most important outlet for them. Yet services providers could very well get the short end of the stick in the future trade agreement between Britain and …
EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström reported “progress on regulatory cooperation” during her meeting with counterpart Robert Lighthizer in Washington yesterday. The two sides are seeking to strike bilateral deals to reduce red tape for trade at the border and avoid duplicative testing procedures. “We could see decisions already [in the] …
The White House is circulating a Section 232 report by the Department of Commerce on the national security implications of auto imports ordered by US President Donald Trump last summer for feedback among various US government departments. The move comes days after US midterm elections and following a trip over …
Glenn Vaughan, chief executive of British Chambers of Commerce EU & Belgium, talks about future European Union-United Kingdom trade relationships with Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer. ‘No deal’ cannot be allowed to happen, he says, and Britain will be stronger on the international stage the more it stays aligned with the EU. …
Four themes will dominate EU trade this week: Brexit, transatlantic relations, WTO issues, and South Africa. Brexit – deal or no deal? It is 9 am Monday morning and EU27 member state ministers are marching as we speak into the Justus Lipsius building on rue de la Loi in Brussels …
Today’s ‘FAC Trade’, as the meeting of trade ministers in November is called in the jargon, was intense. Here’s a rundown of the main outcomes of a meeting that was mainly about taking stock of many trade files.
The Brussels trade bubble is focusing on what will happen at the ‘FAC Trade’ on Friday. The biannual trade ministers’ meeting is above all a stocktaking and brainstorming exercise. The culminating point will be the traditional lunch, where the conversation will focus on EU-US trade relations. Apart from transatlantic relations, …
MEPs are preparing the ground to ratify the EU-Singapore free trade and investment protection agreements in the hope this can be done early next year. “We have kept waiting our Singaporean friends for quite some time,” David Martin, rapporteur on ASEAN trade, said during today’s trade committee meeting. The original …
Members of the European Parliament’s international trade committee gave the green light today to the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. The landmark deal is expected to cover a third of global output and is among the most commercially ambitious trade accords in the world. It substantially liberalises trade in goods and …
