News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
The EU has made meaningful concessions to Japan in its negotiation on a cross-border data flow chapter that is to be annexed to the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, a trade accord that has been in operation since early 2021. The result is a quirky mixture of approaches to the …
The EU is preparing to extend its side of the bargain in a tariff truce agreed with Washington in October 2021 to leave room for negotiating a long-term settlement over steel and aluminium duties initially enacted by the Trump administration on national security grounds in 2018.
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up to this week.
The European Commission initiated four new trade defence investigations only this week, two of them targeting Chinese products. This brings the total number of new anti-dumping cases initiated this year to seven, two more than Brussels launched in 2022.
The latest iteration of the annual report of the China Chamber of Commerce to the European Union has rarely been so critical of what it sees as the EU’s inward looking drive and its growing focus on security in its relationships with China. It takes aim specifically at a policy …
The European Commission released ‘digital trade agreement’ text it intends to negotiate with Singapore and with South Korea. It ignores some of these countries’ key priorities for digital trade.
Due to the All Saints holiday, activity has been fairly subdued on the trade beat in Brussels. Such holiday weeks are generally a good opportunity for leaders to travel. European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis has been touring Asia, whereas the international trade committee of the European Parliament was in …
The European Commission has decided not to sample Tesla Shanghai, the largest exporter of electric vehicles from China to the EU, as part of its ongoing investigation into Beijing’s subsidies into the sector.
The European Parliament’s international trade committee wants the European Commission to up its game in its trade cooperation efforts with Taiwan.
The countdown to likely countervailing duties on imports of electric vehicles from China has officially begun. The anti-subsidy investigation into imports of cars announced mid-September by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was published this morning in the European Union’s statute book.
