Despite Chinese misgivings, the EU is pressing ahead with its dispute against China’s exports restrictions on a variety of raw materials and metals. China initially refused to establish a dispute settlement panel, arguing its new 2017 export quotas were in line with WTO law and aimed at protecting the environment. …
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Trump world hovers over next steps in EU China investment and trade moves
Germany’s prosperous port city of Hamburg is the host of a German-European-Chinese summit, the Hamburg Summit 2016 this week. The swanky event takes place against a backdrop of rising questions over international stability, US-China relations, and investment frictions in EU-China relations. A city open to China Hamburg is positioning …
We’re too busy! says Commission to Taiwan
With the giant TTIP and TiSA negotiations off the agenda in the coming months and possibly years one would believe trade officials in the European Commission would have some extra time on their hands to deal with other negotiations and trade files. Yet there’s one file they are clearly …
EU “sleeping” on China Belt and Road project – former Europe Minister
Bruno Macaes, a former Europe minister of Portugal and author of a forthcoming book entitles We are all Eurasians Now, says the EU should pay more attention to China’s industrial policies in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. With the United States retreating on the global trade policy scene in …
Malmström preparing trip to China – in bid to talk barriers and reassure China on TDI
Commissioner Malmström is sending Jean-Luc Demarty, the Director-General of DG Trade, to China to meet Chinese trade officials ahead of a planned meeting between herself and Mr Gao Hucheng, her Chinese counterpart, in the coming weeks. The move comes at a tense moment in bilateral relations as the EU …
New EU trade defence methodology strikingly similar to previous – lawyers
Plus ça change. That’s how one could summarise the Commission’s approach to changing its current methodology applied to antidumping cases against China. Ahead of a move to do away with treating China as a planned economy in its trade defence law in December this year, the EU Commission is inventing …
EU China MES move makes few people happy
The EU’s proposal to change its antidumping legislation to prepare for a removal of China of its list of non market economies is being greeted with scepticism on both sides of the argument.
EU trade defence proposal – what to expect?
There is a lot of speculation about the exact content of the planned trade defence instrument overhaul the Commission will propose ahead of a December deadline to stop treating China as a non market economy in its antidumping proceedings. The proposal is expected to be sent to member states and …
Metals at heart of fresh EU dispute with China in WTO
Winning a case in the WTO against Chinese restrictions on rare earths back in 2014 was not enough for both the EU and the United States. Early October, Washington launched a new case against continued export restrictions by China on various minerals and metals. This week, the Brussels followed into …
Commission to leverage TDI to tackle market interventionism
The EU Commission appears eager to reassure critics on both sides of the China market economy status debate in Europe that it is doing something. In fact it looks as if most China trade files are stuck, or at the very least advancing at snails’ pace. The EU and China …
