News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
The European Union finds itself between a rock and a hard place after the United States announced it was significantly raising existing Section 301 tariffs imposed in the Trump era on imports of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, solar cells, semiconductors and medical equipment to sweeping levels on Tuesday. Brussels fears …
Bernd Lange served as chair of the European Parliament’s international trade committee for two terms. In an in-depth conversation with Iana Dreyer, he discussed what changes to EU trade policy occurred under his tenure in this pivotal position, where he sees future relationships with the United States and China – …
The European Commission is suddenly rolling out on a grand scale a new regulation seeking to clamp down on distortions created in the European Union single market by foreign companies investing in Europe. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation started operating in October 2023. Six months on, the action the regulation’s unofficial …
It’s been a big week for the big supply chain sustainability pieces of legislation of the soon-ending von der Leyen European Commission. A trilogue deal on forced labour was inked, and Coreper might well also endorse a watered-down version of the CSDDD corporate sustainability due diligence legislation today. It’s also …
The European Parliament’s international trade committee adopted without amendments a regulation renewing unilateral trade preferences offered to Ukraine to support its war-torn economy.
The World Trade Organization released the panel report in one of the two cases brought by two world leading producers of palm oil against a European Union directive that excludes the oil produced in their countries from its future biofuels mix. The lengthy 348-page report does not settle for good …
The fifth EU US Trade and Technology Council meeting held on Tuesday in the United States has turned out as planned: as a staging post for another meeting to be held in April in Brussels. But not only.
Trump, the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, energy security… and MSMEs. Here some highlights of what think tanks have written about in recent days.
Happy New Year dear readers! Brussels has been very quiet this week, but activity is bound to pick up on Monday (8 January). Whoever from Brussels is still on on holiday will return to some uneasy realities that will need to be handled in the coming months as the EU …
European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have put the bilateral trade relationship with China front and centre of their conversations with China’s president Xi Jinping at a summit in Beijing today. The conversations also covered questions of war and peace including the war …
