In this week’s Think Tank column: the divergent fate of US-China and EU-China trade and imagining what a second Donald Trump term would mean for global trade.
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ASIA TRADE: China and Belarus, Korea and Paraguay
Our Asia Trade column resumes this week, tracking trade deals that key Asia-Pacific players clinch across the world in a time of heightened geopolitical competition. This week’s column highlights key developments in a quiet August: China and Belarus inked a services agreement, and Korea and Paraguay signed an MOU on …
THINK TANK: IMF on China subsidies, Chinese firms avoid US tariffs
This week’s post-summer break Think Tank edition features a working paper by the International Monetary Fund on the effect Chinese subsidies on trade and a short piece from the Hinrich Foundation that explores weather China’s overseas direct investment is outflanking US tariffs imposed since the Trump era.
EU readies to make Palestine association deal rules of origin more flexible
The European Union is readying to offer more flexible rules of origin to Palestinian exports.
Analysts, business call for WTO e-commerce deal adoption
The recently concluded negotiations on an agreement on digital trade rules by more than 80 members of the World Trade Organization have received hardly any notice in international business media. Some in the know believe the text is significant and needs to be adopted, despite its many shortcomings and the …
Summer recess period
The institutions whose activities we follow – the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Trade Organization, the parliament of the United Kingdom – are entering a summer recess period. This will reflect on Borderlex’s own reporting. Our flagship weekly columns such as Week …
WTO disputes : EU sues Taiwan over offshore wind, South Africa sues EU over citrus
It’s as if the WTO is becoming a key venue for the EU to settle its disputes with trading partners at a time when the United States is retreat.
THINK TANK: Chinese subsidies, CBAM effects on Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago
In this week’s Think Tank edition: Bruegel explores alternative policies to the European Union’s countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles and the International Institute for Sustainable Development published the first two reports of a series that looks at the effects of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism.
Comment: Business needs to wake up to the real state of affairs in the EU
Stakeholders in international trade policy in Europe interested in an open economy need to face up to a few harsh truths. The first truth is that there will be no pro-active, free-market, let alone an effective trade policy in the coming months, if not years. Trade policy will remain reactive, …
Von der Leyen promises more EU ‘economic statecraft’
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to be confirmed for a second term as president of the European Commission by the European Parliament today on the basis of a working programme for the years 2024-2029 that emphasizes security issues.
