News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
This is an initial run through some of the ‘non-goods’ trade aspects of the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement inked on Christmas Eve and released for the world to read on Boxing Day. The main elements of goods trade were covered by Chris Horseman on Sunday. Plain English The …
The race against time in getting an EU-UK trade pact in place is not quite over despite the fact that negotiators managed to put the final touches on what is now officially called the EU-UK ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ to shape post-Brexit relationships going forward.
This opinion piece reacts to and debates four key criticisms expressed in various media outlets in recent days of the EU-China investment agreement currently seen as in the final stages of negotiations.
The General Council has run into a third day of meetings in Geneva today. At the time of writing, WTO members were still meeting. Despite the intensity of the session, there is a sense of failure as the organisation has not been able to agree on anything except the budget …
It is quite a momentous week for trade in general and trade policy in the European Union in particular, with the future partnership agreement with the United Kingdom in the final stages of negotiation and indications that perhaps there might be ‘white smoke’ on a hitherto elusive EU China investment …
Fisheries is clearly the very last sticking point in the negotiations towards a post-Brexit agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom, chief negotiator Michel Barnier told the European Parliament on Friday (18 December) morning.
The European Union and China are stepping up efforts to seal a deal on a comprehensive investment agreement by year-end as mandated by their respective heads of state over the last months.
Ambassadors to the World Trade Organization are meeting for an intensive two-day General Council meeting where few actual decisions are expected, except the most expedient: adoption of next year’s budget, and, if all goes well, a decision on Thursday (17 December) to ban export restrictions on food items purchased by …
Goods trade data collected by the European Union’s statistical agency reveal dramatic declines in 2020 so far as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January to October 2020, extra-EU exports of goods fell to €1 579.4 bn, Eurostat finds. That is “a decrease of 11.3% compared with January-October 2019″. …
Ahead of the last General Council meeting of the year – the agenda of which is now finally out -, US Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea, who represented the Trump administration in Geneva and oversaw the blockage of the Appellate Body, made a farewell speech as he prepares to …
