Here a selection of think tank pieces on the current state of international trade policy…
Author: Iana Dreyer
EU, US to continue steel carbon accounting negotiations despite GSA stalling
The fifth EU US Trade and Technology Council meeting held on Tuesday in the United States has turned out as planned: as a staging post for another meeting to be held in April in Brussels. But not only.
European Commission aims to make FDI screening mandatory
The European Commission has released a long-anticipated package aiming at enhancing what it terms its “economic security”.
Comment: The new face of EU trade defence policy
As the current European Commission finishes its term in the coming months, a range of pending decisions in this will tell us what the new face of EU trade defence policy really is.
Week in Brussels: US and China unease to start the year.
Happy New Year dear readers! Brussels has been very quiet this week, but activity is bound to pick up on Monday (8 January). Whoever from Brussels is still on on holiday will return to some uneasy realities that will need to be handled in the coming months as the EU …
New EU China biodiesel trade defence case
The European Commission launched its tenth initial trade defence investigation for 2023, of which eight target China and one is an anti-subsidy investigation. This doubles the number of new cases compared to 2022. And it will allow the commission to surgically target biodiesel imports from China.
Blog: A lesson in trade policy from the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission
The UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission, an advisory body to the government on trade policy in relation to the country’s agriculture sector, released a much awaited report late last week on the consequences of Britain’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership. Here some comments.
EU leaders hold ‘detailed’ trade conversation with China
European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have put the bilateral trade relationship with China front and centre of their conversations with China’s president Xi Jinping at a summit in Beijing today. The conversations also covered questions of war and peace including the war …
Week in London: Skills shortages, 3 years TCA, 3-year RoO extension
The week in UK trade news was dominated by the announcement of a three-year delay in enacting new, more restrictive, rules of origin for parts that go into electric vehicles to and from the EU and UK as part the 2020 bilateral trade and cooperation agreement known as TCA. This …
Blog: The oddities of the new EU Japan cross-border data flow text
The EU has made meaningful concessions to Japan in its negotiation on a cross-border data flow chapter that is to be annexed to the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, a trade accord that has been in operation since early 2021. The result is a quirky mixture of approaches to the …
