News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
A Green Deal turned industrial policy in the name of security. A ‘geopolitical Commission’ entrenched. The centre-right in the driving seat but the far right in the passenger seat. These are the three trends one can see emerging from the yet-to-be confirmed new European Commission team under a second Ursula …
This week’s think tank column focuses on what onshoring and revoking Chinese permanent normal trade relations status really mean for the United States economy, improving regional trade agreements to benefit agricultural trade and the impacts of the European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism on Vietnam.
In this week’s Think Tank edition: Alan Wolff discusses the legalities of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs and William Reinsch comments on the need for a coordinated global strategy to deal with China’s overcapacity. Also, the Hinrich Foundation reports on potential for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations digital agreement to …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
This week in the Asia-Pacific: Korea and Thailand are negotiating their own bilateral trade accord.
In this week’s think tank column: geopolitics and real patterns of trade, electric vehicle tariffs (yet again), and the future of United Kingdom freeports under Labour.
