For those who wish to go over this week’s news in EU trade far from the computer, here’s your weekly pdf! Good week-end!
Author: Iana Dreyer
Japan-EU Bonn meet yields no breakthrough in FTA talks
EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström and Japan’s foreign minister Fumio Kishida held a meeting in Bonn, Germany, today, taking stock of ongoing free trade agreement talks as these appear to have stumbled. As previously reported by us, the more than three-year old trade negotiations with Japan have stuttered in …
ECJ gives Commission exclusive power to sign copyright pact under the EU’s commercial policy
This week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) opined that the EU is exclusively competent to conclude the 2009 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. Though the matter of the treaty itself is non commercial, the court ruled …
EU sees goods trade slowdown in 2016
EU goods trade slowed down in 2016, the latest Eurostat statistics released this week reveal. In January to December 2016, extra-EU28 exports of goods stood at €1 745.7 bn, decreasing by 2 percent compared with the period running from January to December 2015. EU imports decreased by 1 percent the …
CETA vote divides Dutch, Polish, Belgian mainstream MEPs
Data on the European Parliament’s vote consenting to the Comprehensive Economic and Partnership Agreement with Canada released today reveal emerging new fractures in Europe’s political groups as pro-trade mainstream parties saw a rise in votes against the pact. The vote on CETA held in Strasbourg on Wednesday (15 February 2017) wielded less …
MEPs approve partnership pact with Mongolia
It took almost four years for the deal that replaces a 1993 cooperation agreement between the EU and Mongolia to be greenlighted by the European Parliament. On Wednesday (15 February 2017) MEPs approved a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement – PCA – with the Asian country squeezed in between Russia and China …
In brief: MEPs give nod to updated WTO deal on trade in civil aircraft
MEPs did not only vote on CETA today. They also endorsed a technical amendment to the WTO’s Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft. ATCA is a 1980 trade pact among 32 formerly GATT now WTO members that liberalises trade in non military aircraft and its components. In 2015, its …
Trans-Atlantic Business Council calls for revival of TTIP after MEP CETA green light
It’s almost impossible to see a negative opinion across Europe’s business community on the European Parliament’s vote in favour of CETA on Wednesday (15 February 2017). Even a big chunk of the free trade agreement-sceptic European farming and food sector is looking forward to trading under the pact’s new rules. United States observers, for …
Video – Coming up in EU trade – 15-28 February 2017
In this video, Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer walks you through the key topics on the agenda in Europe’s trade policy for the period 15 to 28 February 2017.
Last-ditch civil society push ahead of crucial CETA vote in Strasbourg
On Wednesday (15 January 2017), the European Parliament will vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – or CETA. Should MEPs endorse the trade pact with Canada, the bulk of it will come into force provisionally in the spring 2017. The move will have been preceded by heavy campaigning for and against the …
