Council members will not only try to reach an agreement to sign CETA at a pencilled in EU Canada summit next week. They will also discuss EU plans to overhaul its antidumping legislation ahead of a planned move to grant China market economy treatment. And the steel industry is watching …
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Brexit: UK-China FTA could threaten German, Slovakian car industry – study
A new study by the think tank Bruegel believes that, should the UK sign a free trade agreement with China, its car industry could gain a significant advantage over its EU based competitors – especially in Germany and Slovakia. The more so if the UK stays in the single market after …
EU Japan FTA: Japanese music industry seeks more copyright protections
The Japan Council of Performers Rights and Performing Arts Organizations and the Recording Industry Association of Japan are lobbying for increased copyright protection in the EU Japan free trade agreement currently under negotiation. Trade Commissioner Malmström is trying to placate them. In a letter to the organizations early October (7 …
Trade remedies among top topics on table in EU Indonesia agreement kick-off talks
At a time when EU antidumping methodologies face repeated setbacks either in the WTO or in the Court of Justice of the EU – as highlighted with the latest Appellate Body report on EU duties on Argentinean biofuels – trade remedies have featured highly in the two-day meetings held between the …
INTA Chair Lange worries China MES deadline will be missed
In a letter to Commissioner Malmström, the head of the European Parliament’s trade committee expressed concerns the EU was running late in tabling legislative proposals to ensure it in compliance with its WTO obligations ahead of a December 2016 deadline to grant China market economy treatment in its antidumping legislation. …
Singapore BIT terminations under question in Court of Justice case on EUSFTA
A detailed report on the EU Law Analysis blog of the first hearing in the Court of Justice of the EU ahead of an eagerly anticipated legal opinion regarding the scope of the EU’s exclusive competence to conclude its 2013 free trade agreement with Singapore reveals that member state bilateral …
EU Japan FTA – window for conclusion seen in early 2017
EU and Japanese trade negotiators have spent a week in Brussels trying to make progress on the planned EU Japan free trade agreement. Political leaders on both sides have said they want to conclude negotiations in 2016. Though there are clearly stirrings in negotiations that had gone into a slumber in late 2015, there …
Bratislava trade meeting: no major decision expected on dumping and China MES
The key priority of trade ministers gathering at Bratislava on Friday (23 September) will be to garner sufficient support from member states to authorise the signature of CETA next month at a bilateral EU-Canada summit.
Top EU farm group calls for conclusion of CETA, TTIP, EU Japan FTA
The EU’s biggest farm group Copa Cogeca is getting nervous about the prospects of key proposed EU trade agreements: CETA, TTIP and the EU-Japan FTA. “We need to find more new export outlets so that we are not totally dependent on the Chinese market”, Martin Merrild, the president of Copa …
EU Japan FTA: business groups criticise slow pace of talks, textiles make proposals
Business groups are mobilising for the EU Japan agreement under negotiation since 2013 (updated on 21.09 16:18). The EU and Japan are preparing for a seventeenth round of trade negotiations late September. Though political leaders on both sides have called on the negotiators to conclude an agreement by the end of …
