News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The world where export controls in the European Union were a highly technical affair focused on keeping dangerous items out of the hands of a few so-called ‘rogue’ states in a United States-led post Cold War order is now dead. In comes a world harking back to Cold War export …
The European Commission is preparing a new package of measures and regulations to help harmonise customs procedures across the European Union’s 27 member states.
Three years into a pandemic and almost one year into a war in Ukraine have probably durably changed the European Union’s outlook on China. Its policy approach to Beijing this year is to reflect this change.
The EU and Indonesia achieved some wins during their latest trade negotiations in the week of 12 December. But further discussions will be necessary on several chapters, whilst others, such as trade and sustainable development, are still at an early stage.
The year at the World Trade Organization’s secretariat is ending on a bitter note amidst a row with India over the use of a 2021 budget surplus. In a context of planning uncertainty, the secretariat did not renew the contracts of around fifty consultants with time-limited work arrangements at headquarters …
The World Trade Organization released a panel ruling today related to a dispute brought by Hong Kong authorities against Washington’s decision to mark the origin of products imported from Hong Kong as originating in China. The conclusions are similar to those of a recent report on US Section 232 tariffs …
The Czech EU presidency managed to finalise another trade policy file today: that pertaining to the ongoing revision of the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences.
Below, a few key developments in EU trade this week as we await the outcome of a jumbo-trilogue on the EU’s climate package that will decide on the final shape of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism. By Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer.
This is a short and pithy Week in London column for you this week as we await details of the ongoing round of FTA negotiations between the United Kingdom and India.
The United States’ trade policy is this week’s focus at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. The country’s trade policy review happens in principle every two years. Given recent developments and the United States’ global status, the TPR attracted particularly strong interest from other members of the global trade institution. …
