The announcement comes only days after the US announced it was suspending tariffs on UK imports linked to the long-running Airbus-Boeing subsidy saga. The UK had unilaterally suspended those tariffs when it left the EU customs union and single market in January this year. “The suspension allows both sides to …
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Week in Brussels: Potential EU-US supply chain collaboration, Korea ILO, Mexico Global Agreement
Dombrovskis sees potential in EU-US supply chain resilience collaboration President Biden this week made headlines by announcing a review of the United States’ supply chains. Strategic dependencies on – namely but not only – China and other supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic have had the US government focus …
USTR nominee Katherine Tai wants to “land plane” with EU on Airbus-Boeing tariffs
During her confirmation hearing in the Senate the nominee to become the next United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai offered a general direction of travel for the Biden administration’s trade policy but hardly gave answers on specifics. Katherine Tai said she was pursuing a “worker-centred” trade policy – that also …
COM in procurement reciprocity push, vaccine export controls in face of Biden moves
European Union trade tensions with the United States inherited from the Trump era are not quite yet at the cusp of being resolved with the incoming Joe Biden administration.
Weyand to US: let’s work together on labour rights
The European Commissions director-general for trade Sabine Weyand also hopes to unlock a dialogue with the United States over the Appellate Body in the WTO by promising proposals on ‘judicial economy’ in February.
Week in Brussels: China deal furore, US suspends French digital tax duties, chides Italian taxes
This has been overall quiet and very cold week on the Brussels trade beat. Trade negotiators appear to have taken a bit of a breather after their Christmas break was upended due to historic trade and investment agreements with the United Kingdom and China being concluded at the very last …
Week in Brussels: EU-UK, Turkey, EU-US
This has been Brexit week on both sides of the Channel. The dinner between Ursula von der Leyen and Boris Johnson on Wednesday night did not bring us closer to a breakthrough on the most thorny issue of ‘the level playing field’.
The EU’s wish list for EU-US trade relations under Biden
The European Union is putting forward a minimalist bilateral trade agenda with the United States, choosing instead a to seek to work with Washington on broader global issues.
Week in Brussels: Strategic plan, lobster deal, EP on TPR, Australia, Mercosur
Good afternoon, an overview of interesting trade policy developments in Brussels this week. 35% of EU exports to be covered by trade agreements in 2024 and other strategic objectives The European Commission’s trade directorate released its 2020 ‘Strategic Plan’ this week. The document spells out how the body will approach …
Biden administration trade policy and the EU: what to really expect?
The European Union’s political establishment is relieved that the Democratic candidate to the White House Joe Biden has won the United States elections this month. While improvement of political relationships is in the offing, a there will be no miraculous return to close and harmonious relationships across the Atlantic. And …
