News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
US Senator Chris Murphy published a piece in the Financial Times today arguing that the US must continue on its path of retreating from the recently concluded e-commerce agreement at the World Trade Organization, which Washington stopped supporting. This is a good moment to set the record straight on this …
This is a first in a series of columns recapping some of the latest trade developments in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the key developments in May include a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Peru. Also, several trade agreements are on the horizon namely, …
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.
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 …
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up in August thus far. The Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hinrich Foundation have been focusing on WTO issues, while the European Council on Foreign relations focuses on the EU’s version of ‘friend-shoring’.
The European Council on Foreign Relations has been very active in recent days.
G7 leaders issued an exceptionally lengthy joint statement at a summit hosted by Japan in the city of Hiroshima that covers a range of topics from the war in Ukraine, to Taiwan, healthcare, food security and climate mitigation – to name some of the most important ones. One of the …
A selection of interesting recent think tank pieces. CSIS: US should let the Germany work out its approach to China as its domestic debate shifts Lily McElwee Fellow, Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that explains how the debate in Germany surrounding China …
Think tanks are busy churning out content and context on EU and US green tech industrial policies.
Prime minister Rishi Sunak and European commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced an agreement in principle over how the protocol on Northern Ireland included in the EU-UK Withdrawal agreement is to function.
