News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, April 27, 2025
This is a week of summits and negotiations: the EU will start talks with New Zealand, continue discussions with Mercosur and hold high-level meetings with China and Japan (delayed from last week). And toward the end of the week, when the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body meets, we might …
All policy people in Europe are looking at the UK’s freshly released White Paper on the future EU-UK relationship released this afternoon in London. The paper was met with caution in Brussels, scepticism in Britain, and rejection by US president Donald Trump. It is basically more of the same – …
AmChamEU, the association representing US businesses invested in the European Union, is urging Brussels and London to step up their efforts to establish a working future economic relationship after Brexit. The moves comes as Britain prepares to release its long-awaited ‘white paper’ on its future relationship with the bloc. The …
Both the United Kingdom and the United States want to start free trade talks as soon as possible once Britain is out of the European Union. But the scope and outcome of any such trade negotiation depends on the future UK-EU relationship, while both British and US business interest for …
The European Commission hopes to finalise preparations on the apportionment of tariff rate quotas between the EU and the UK by the end of the year to make sure all practical procedures are in place before Brexit date. During a discussion with MEPs, a commission official said the bloc needed …
The next two weeks are notable for all the rounds of trade negotiations: the EU will hold talks with China and Indonesia this week and then with Mercosur and New Zealand next week. In between, EU and Japanese officials will sign their economic partnership and strategic partnership agreements. But perhaps …
The EU is transfixed by the trade war with the United States. This week was comparatively quiet in terms of trade meetings or negotiations – but the next couple of weeks will be packed. This week we’ve written on what World Trade Organization members have been telling the US …
The World Trade Organization is holding meetings today to examine the United Kingdom’s bid to become an independent member of the Government Procurement Agreement. The EU is also accelerating the pace of splitting its tariff schedule from the UK’s. On Tuesday, EU member states gave the European Commission the …
There is increased fretting that the UK could crash out of the European Union in a chaotic way next March if no significant progress is made in its withdrawal negotiations with the bloc in the coming months. The EU is not – at the moment – ready to seriously envisage contingency plans. …
With few countries running to the UK offering to open their markets, growing nationalist populism and authoritarianism across Europe, and protectionism on the rise domestically, Britain faces some tough choices on how to move forward with its trading arrangements. The UK may do better to seek a new customs union …
