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Monday, April 28, 2025
MPIA state of play EU appeals ‘into void’ in Russia anti-dumping dispute To many, the move will seem highly ironic. The EU is not pleased with a July WTO panel ruling regarding anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate and steel pipes in a case filed by Russia – so it is …
“Human mobility constitutes services trade in its own right, while also enabling trade in goods and other services,” reads a thought-piece on the impact of COVID-19 travel restrictions on international trade put together by the secretariat of the World Trade Organization.
The conveners of the plurilateral e-commerce negotiations discreetly circulated a “stocktake” text on electronic commerce amongst World Trade Organization members at the height of the mid-August European heatwave. The e-commerce negotiations were launched among a subset of WTO members in February 2019 following a pledge at the last Buenos Aires …
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a few curt statements to the press this morning without taking questions from journalists on the next steps following the resignation of trade commissioner Phil Hogan from his post. Von der Leyen asked the Irish government to nominate two candidates, one male, …
Not even one year into his new post Ireland’s commissioner in charge of trade resigned last night following a row over his compliance with government guidelines aimed at containing the global COVID-19 pandemic during as stay in his home country this month. The resignation also follows another recent political setback …
Simplifying rules of origin for the hub-and-spoke preferential trade arrangements in the European Union’s neighbourhood is anything but a simple exercise. The renegotiation of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin – the PEM convention – has been going on for a decade. It aims at introducing a …
The European Court of Auditors released its first report on the European Union’s trade defence policies in July. While overall ECA gave the Commission a clean slate on how trade defence cases are handled, it pointed to a variety of shortcomings in the decision-making process. Among those shortcomings, issues with …
Updated on 26 August at 9.45 The ‘golfgate’ crisis is deepening and the pressure is growing on the European Commission to act – somehow. More details emerged in the Irish press this morning about European Union’s trade commissioner’s movements in his COVID-19 restricted country during his summer break. Hogan’s fate …
It’s the rentrée for Borderlex and for many other professionals in the trade policy world. Below, a short August wrap-up and week preview for trade policy in Europe and WTO. Cyrpus parliament rejects CETA: The parliament in Cyprus was the first country in the EU to refuse to ratify the …
So Washington will slap 25% tariffs on French and German jams, fruit, liqueurs, pork meats and knives following a revision process of its tariffs imposed on aircraft and food and drink products following its victory in the World Trade Organization case brought against the EU subsidies to Airbus. Five quick …
