News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
The year began with a bang in some parts of the world in terms of commerce, including a World Trade Organization complained filed by Canada against US trade-remedy measures that could eventually draw in other WTO members as complainants. Canada challenges ‘America First’ approach at WTO Canada has …
Not surprisingly, Moscow has announced that it plans to fight efforts by the EU to slap 1.39 billion euros in trade sanctions on Russia for failing to lift a ban on European pork and pigs. If the EU convinces World Trade Organization judges that Russia continues to flout global trade …
The new year begins rather slowly, but with optimism that the EU and Mexico will soon manage to clinch their updated trade deal. The eighth round of talks will be held this week in Mexico after the two sides failed to secure the modernised accord before Christmas. Following the …
It was a relatively quiet week for trade around the world this week as the holidays approach. The Beyond Brussels column will also take a holiday, and return in January. Borderlex wishes all of our subscribers a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and prosperous 2018. E-COMMERCE: Governments are …
China tends to play its cards very close to its chest when it comes to World Trade Organization disputes. So Beijing’s decision to publish part of its oral statement to the WTO panel adjudicating its complaint about the EU’s refusal to treat China as a free economy underscores just how …
The clock is ticking as the EU and Mexico work to secure a framework to upgrade their 17-year-old trade agreement by the end of the month. The two sides made progress on issues including market access and intellectual property during their sixth round of discussions in November, and negotiators held …
There’s no need to rehash any of the ‘bigger’ news – relatively speaking, of course – that came out of the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting this week, as we’ve covered much of it already. And there really wasn’t much news at all from the conference, anyway. But there were …
A confidential note obtained by Borderlex shows that extending the mandate of World Trade Organization Appellate Body judges has been common practice in Geneva for many years. As the crisis over the nomination of new judges deepens, Washington doesn’t seem to have addressed that fact.
The World Trade Organization has done a good job of tamping down any expectation that its upcoming ministerial meeting will agree on much of anything.
In trade news from outside the EU this week, we have: CANADA-NAFTA: NAFTA talks resume on Monday with a partial round in Washington, though there will be no political leaders at the table. Ahead of that happening, Canadian Labor Minister Patricia Hajdu will meet with some of the country’s biggest …
