The perception in Brussels is that the approach taken in the choice and level of tariffs by the US Trade Representative to hit the European Union following yesterday’s WTO arbitrator’s green light in the Airbus affair is relatively measured. Accordingly, the EU’s own response to the tariffs, too, is expected …
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Will the US-EU beef quota deal be victim of Airbus tariff feud?
So what happens now? Airbus tariffs authorised Today, as expected a World Trade Organization arbitrator authorised the United States to remove concessions offered to the European Union under two WTO treaties amounting to an equivalent of almost US $ 7.5 billion worth of exports. “These countermeasures may take the form …
Hogan hearing: geostrategic pitch meets sustinability and farming questions
The questions Phil Hogan was least comfortable with were those around digital trade and European plans to establish a multilateral investment court. The more than two hour hearing with MEPs from the international trade committe was uneventful and dry – addressing at times the minutiae of ‘rules of origin’ in …
Week Ahead: Airbus, Hogan hearing, ESA, Indonesia
This is set to be an intense week in EU trade policy. The Airbus tariff war, DSB meeting The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body is meeting today in Geneva. On the agenda: the Airbus case and authorisation by the WTO for the United States to imposed duties on EU …
After Japan: EU last man standing in Washington’s tariff sniping with allies
Has the time for a full-scale trade war between the European Union and the United States now arrived? Clearly the two sides are on the brink of a nasty and damaging process. With the US now largely having achieved its objectives in the sniping war it launched against some of …
Week in Brussels: New York Airbus, Slovakia okays CETA, Korea ILO
This week, EU leaders were out in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting dominated by ‘Greta’, i.e. the climate change issue. The gathering in the Great Apple was also a good opportunity to meet other leaders from across the world. Cecilia Malmströmmet among others with counterparts from Brazil …
European Chamber in China calls on EU to flex muscles on shipping rights
The annual European Chamber’s Executive Position Paper on China released this week was drafted in a particularly punchy tone. Its former president Jörg Wuttke is back in charge after many months of absence. Wuttke is advocating a tough European Union line on trade and investment relationships with China. The 30-page …
TDI series: Rice – The EU’s first ‘poorest country’ import safeguard
This article is the first in a series of pieces Borderlex is planning to publish over the autumn 2019 to take stock of the European Union’s trade defence instrument policy at a critical turning point both in the multilateral trading system and in the EU’s trade defence practices. Since 2014, …
Week Ahead: US-EU, steel, China, e-commerce
Perhaps this is the week when the European Parliament will really get down to work on international trade policy, and it’s the week after the summer break where trade disputes and trade negotiations really start trailing off. INTA committee The international trade committee is meeting today and tomorrow. Today’s session …
Mercosur pact inflames European trade politics
Phil Hogan might come to regret having been the one to have made the the EU-Mercosur trade agreement possible earlier this summer by brokering difficult last-minute compromises. The outgoing agriculture commissioner will be among the first nominees for the new European Commission to be heard by MEPs as he bids …
