News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Direct investments into the EU from China are on the retreat and the trend could persist, finds the European Commission in its first official report on foreign direct investment and member state screening activities. The report is part of an annual exercise foreseen under a new EU-level screening regulation. The …
The European Union, the United States and Japan have agreed to resume dormant talks aimed at agreeing on joint principles related to industrial subsidisation, which they would like the World Trade Organization to endorse in a potential future reform process.
Almost ten years after rules on salmonella in poultry meat were amended in the European Union, Brazil is filing for consultations at the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva over what it sees as discriminatory treatment of its processed poultry meat.
The countdown to the next WTO ministerial to be hald at the end of this month is on.
Hello, this is Iana Dreyer, stepping in for Chris Horseman this week. This was another familiar week in the politics of EU-UK post-Brexit trade relations, with Northern Ireland and access to fishing waters along the Channel Islands dominating the news. We shall come back to Northern Ireland. In the meantime, …
The international trade committee of the European Parliament has begun work on the European Commission’s regulatory proposal on “foreign subsidies distorting the internal market”. Its members are eyeing tighter conditions than originally laid out by the EU executive for triggering investigations.
Borderlex’s founder and editor Iana Dreyer spoke to the European Commission’s director-general for trade Sabine Weyand. The conversation covered the current state of transatlantic trade relations, the Brussels’ trade conversation with China and prospects for the World Trade Organization as its 12th ministerial conference approaches.
The European Union is preparing two legislative measures to respond to what is perceived as a growing trend by other big powers to exert economic coercion on its firms and governments. The Commission is lining its ducks in a row over this matter, so as to ensure that the separate …
The discreet Brussels-based China Chamber of Commerce to the EU released this week its 2021 annual report on what it terms the ‘business climate’ in the bloc.
The United States and the five European countries that have enacted digital services taxes agreed a tax-and-tariff truce during USTR Katherine Tai’s ongoing visit to Europe and ahead of Friday’s G7 trade ministers meeting in the United Kingdom.
