News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
This week’s think tank focus is on the EU and its approach to China. Also this week: The Center for Strategic and International Studies makes the case for a renewal of the expired United States Generalised Scheme of Preferences and the Hinrich Foundation suggests that the Association of Southeast Asian …
This is a very special week ahead for trade policy in Europe, be it in Brussels, London, other European capitals and at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.
One can’t escape a sense of spookiness on this Halloween week-end in Europe as not least international trade policy professionals wait for the results of the United States presidential elections next week. So much in the direction of travel in this field will depend on its outcomes. The EU …
Seventeen ‘Global South’ countries are calling on the EU to scrap its plans to establish a three-tiered deforestation risk benchmarking system to assess the extent to which controls will be imposed on their exports at the border.
The European Commission published this afternoon the definitive regulation enacting much-awaited electric vehicle countervailing duties after an investigation launched in October last year into subsidisation of the sector by the Chinese authorities. The duties will come into force as soon as tomorrow (30 October).
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 …
A judgment by the European Court of Justice spelled out preliminary views on the effects of the EU’s International Procurement Instrument on the treatment of non-EU companies involved in public bidding contracts.
In less than two weeks the commissioners in-waiting nominated by president Ursula von der Leyen will start being heard by members of the European Parliament in view of their confirmation votes next month. Based on the various statements sent to committees ahead of the hearings, there is one major change …
This week think tanks are focused on how the European Union should prepare for the trade policies of the next United States administration, the benefits of the US rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a strategy to counter China and US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed 10-60% tariffs.
The European Commission released its annual report on foreign direct investment into the EU. It also used the opportunity to release new information on developments in the FDI screening area. FDI into the EU has been on a downward path in 2023, partly reflecting global trends, but probably also reflecting …
