News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
There is no more ducking the question in Europe of how to handle Taiwan. China increasingly asserts its clout over the South China Sea, Hong Kong and it is trying to do the same over Taiwan. Clearly the issue can no longer be brushed under the carpet in Brussels – …
The European Parliament is preparing a report on trade policy post COVID-19. The drafting is in the hands of the Belgian S&D group member Kathleen van Brempt and will help define the parliament’s positioning in several trade policy files in the coming months. A first version of the report is …
It’s been an eventful one and a half days on the foreign policy front – with significant implications for EU trade policy Here a little ‘quick and dirty’ update on where things stand. Airbus and steel and aluminium disputes on the immediate agenda of EU & US New USTR Katherine …
Instead of engaging in export controls, the world’s large vaccine producers should come together to clinch a ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Investment and Trade Agreement’, write Chad Bown and Thomas Bollyky in a new piece by the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics.
It’s been a long journey for Uzbekistan. The Central Asian country remains one of the world’s most closed and politically repressive countries, but it embarked on a new journey in 2016 after the passing away of Islam Karimov, a particularly cruel dictator. The five-year reform process might lead the country …
Internal European Union member state negotiations over a new regulation that could trigger price increases or market exclusion of third country bidders in public procurement markets are making progress again.
European leaders have welcomed the nomination of Katherine Tai as new United States Trade Representative. The new US trade chief was backed by unanimity in the Senate on Wednesday (17 March 2021).
There is clearly more activity at the World Trade Organization than last year – probably even than the year before last. With a new director-general now in office, a date for the next ministerial meeting all set and hope for a more cooperative US administration, this is the time when …
Around 450 NGOs, labour unions, civil rights organisations on both sides of the Atlantic have launched a common campaign aiming to bring down the EU Mercosur Association Agreement which the Commission and South American governments are preparing to ratify, pending further negotiations of a protocol that would involve cooperation in …
This week a tenth free trade agreement negotiation round between the EU and Australia continues into its second week. The European Commission will also launch two legal proceedings against the United Kingdom for breaching the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol (see here). The International Trade Committee of the European …
