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MEPs of the European Parliament’s trade committee adopted a report calling on the EU to go further than planned in a current move to overhaul the EU’s standard trade defence calculation methodology. The vote – with a majority of 33 INTA committee members in favour – comes as the EU prepares …
The article was updated on 05/06/2017 8.25 CET. Council president Donald Tusk hailed the 19th EU China summit in Brussels this week as “the most promising summit” with China he ever attended. EU leaders held the press waiting for more than three hours before announcing little concrete steps …
China wanted to make the now-closing Belt and Road Forum a major global summit. But only 20 heads of state responded to invitations from Beijing. Western nations mostly sent ministers. It was nonetheless a big bash. OBOR, as the new ‘Silk Road’ initiative is called, is a plan by Beijing …
Member states have agreed on a new methodology to calculate antidumping duties after almost six months of internal negotiations. The suggested methodology will apply to all trade defence cases in future once adopted. The change to the EU’s basic antidumping regulation follows on plans to do away with a specific methodology – the …
On Thursday (6 April 2017), the EU slapped definitive antidumping duties ‘hot-rolled’ iron products and on steel imported from China. The move comes only a few days after the WTO established a dispute settlement panel following a Chinese complaint in which Beijing accuses the EU of illegally continuing to apply its …
The WTO’s dispute settlement panel has broadly endorsed a claim brought against the EU by China regarding a tariff rate quota extension for chicken. In 2012, the EU extended its WTO quotas to Thailand and Brazil, two major exporters of poultry. China, whose exports to the EU had increased significantly …
MEPs from the main centre-right group EPP are preparing a motion that would call on the EU Commission to introduce screening of foreign direct controls. The proposal is being circulated by MEP heavyweights Manfred Weber, Daniel Caspary, Tokia Saifi, Iuliu Winkler, Slavatore Cicu, Frank Proust, Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Viviane Reding, Andreas …
Details of Commission plans to potentially screen and bloc foreign direct investments that are “politically motivated” have started leaking. The plans were initiated shortly after Germany blocked the acquisition of a German firm Aixtron by a Chinese state-owned company in late 2016, following a request by Berlin, Paris and Rome. The plans consider the …
The European Commission is extending trade defence duties applied to solar panels and cells from China by another eighteen months. It is also planning to phase them out gradually. The move comes after a first failed initial proposal to extend those duties by two years following an expiry review finalised …
The EU Commission is set to act alone in a disputed solar panel antidumping case after appeals committee puts case in limbo. EU member states comprising 48 percent of the EU’s population agreed on Friday (17 February 2017) to the Commission’s revised proposal on the extension of solar panel duties …
