In May 2017 I published an article entitled Trade – The newcomer think tank that has the ear of Whitehall on the Legatum Institute in London on this website. The article was critical of the Legatum Institute’s trade work and of the background of its main funder Christopher Chandler. …
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In May 2017 I published an article entitled Trade – The newcomer think tank that has the ear of Whitehall on the Legatum Institute in London on this website. The article was critical of the Legatum Institute’s trade work and of the background of its main funder Christopher Chandler. …
All you need to know for April 2017 in EU trade
Borderlex founder & editor Iana Dreyer offers an overview of the main events in EU trade in April 2017. The EU will hold free trade negotiations with Mexico and Japan. France will hold decisive elections for the EU and for trade. The EU and Britain are also gearing up in …
Upcoming in EU trade – 15-31 March 2017
Among others, during the second half of March 2017 in EU trade: Germany’s relationship with the United States The trigger of the Brexit process EU Mercosur trade talks Conflict minerals regulation
In brief: China to launch case against US, EU in WTO on market economy treatment
The coming WTO dispute settlement body meeting in Geneva, scheduled on Friday, will be perhaps one of the most interesting in the organisation’s history…. China has announced it was launching a dispute settlement case against the EU and the US due to their failure to do away with unconventional …
Russia requests establishment of panel on EU antidumping measures
Russia has requested that the WTO establish a dispute settlement panel to settle a dispute it launched in 2015 on antidumping measures in the EU concerning fertilisers and metals products (background here). At stake are the EU’s so-called cost-adjustment methodologies, which have been rebuffed by the WTO in a …
Brexit: New DTI Chief Economist hails from transport and agriculture background
London has nominated a new chief economist and head of analysis to its Department for International Trade. Richard Price was previously chief executive of the UK’s Office of Rail and Road, the country’s transport regulator. Prior to that he was chief economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs …
Parliament rejects motion to check CETA’s legality with ECJ
The mainstream parties in the European Parliament have rejected by a large majority a motion initiated by 89 MEPs to submit the EU-Canada trade agreement – CETA – to the Court of Justice of the EU to check its compatibility with EU law. Such a move would have likely postponed …
In brief: EU India – what’s the noise all about?
Much has been said about the recent termination by India of its bilateral investment treaty with the Netherlands’s contribution to the stalling of attempts to revive and EU-India free trade accord (BTIA). In fact it’s not the terminations that are determinant here. It’s the substance of the FTA. India …
In brief: EU EEA agricultural trade talks stumble on GIs
The EU and the European Economic Area countries (Norway and Iceland) have been talking about trade liberalisation in agriculture for almost two years, as part of institutionalised bi-annual trade talks aiming to deepen their economic integration. A meeting of the EU EEA Council today reveals that although trade liberalisation per …
