EU US steel and aluminium talks reach crunch time The EU and US are still negotiating on a mechanism aimed at phasing out Trump era national security import duties on steel (25%) and aluminium (10%).
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Week in Brussels: Doing business in China, Canadian public procurement tenders
It’s been an eventful week – with a lot of emotion around a cancelled French submarine deal. But fears that an inaugural EU US Trade and Technology Council would be postponed did not materialise. We also had the announcement of a new EU General Scheme of Preferences regulation. Here other …
Comment: EU needs to grow up and seek strategic dialogue with the United States
The United States’ crashing into a submarine agreement Australia concluded with France, getting Paris kicked out of it and replace it with its own nuclear-powered technology, all done in secret and revealed suddenly last week is a shock to everyone.
Week in Brussels: MEP China report, ASEAN, Dombrovskis in Geneva
It’s been an intense week in trade policy in Brussels, focused on preparations of the Trade and Tech Council with the United States to be held late September 2021. This week saw the launch of the first EU-wide Indo-Pacific strategy. The latter was overshadowed by a blow to French interests …
Week Ahead : EU international procurement, WTO dispute settlement body, UK New Zealand
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Autumn 2021 EU trade policy: in the shadow of German elections
The European Union’s trade policy agenda will be overshadowed by a hiatus in the coming months as the Franco-German duo faces domestic elections. Nonetheless, pathbreaking legislation ranging from procurement to supply chains could still make headway.
Week in Brussels: EU US talk talks on steel and TTC, Caspary procurement report, ESA EPA upgrade
If anything, this week in trade in Brussels was about preparing the ground for what comes next in the autumn 2021.
Week Ahead : WTO seeks way forward ahead of MC12
This last week of July 2021 will see a frenzy of activity at the World Trade Organization as Brussels quiets down and London too – although one cannot exclude new developments in the Northern Ireland file as the EU prepares to bring legal action against the the United Kingdom to …
Week in Brussels: ASEAN, Switzerland, Industrialists on China, FTA domestic advisory groups
Brussels in rushing to wrap up or move specific trade file to the next level before the summer break which begins late July. EU ASEAN to meet in Q3 to discuss region to region FTA ‘parameters’ Well, nothing came out of it apart from good intentions. The EU and ASEAN …
Ramblings on the EU’s post-apocalypse trade policy
The coming months will be a challenge for advocates of international trade agreements in Brussels and the wider European Union. Post-Trump, post-Brexit and post-pandemic trade policies are bound to focus on files that respond to a sense of existential threat emanating from its member states.
