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“Both sides are doing their homework at the moment,” a Mercosur official told Borderlex. The European Union and the South American bloc are preparing a final exchange of politically highly sensitive market-access offers in free trade negotiations that the European Commission wants to declare concluded by year-end. Confidence that …
EU foreign ministers and High Representative Federica Mogherini are gathering in Myanmar for the Asia-Europe Meeting, where representatives of more than 50 countries get together for dialogue on anything ranging from security to migration to ‘connectivity’. The final communique of ASEM is not expected to mention the dramatic Rohingya refugee …
The EU and Japan have stabilised the text of their Economic Partnership Agreement concluded politically in July this year and are heading towards signing an agreement in December 2017. Both sides hope the Council can agree to the text during the spring 2018, Borderlex understands. The main deal would …
Animal welfare is set to become an increasingly important priority in the EU’s free trade agreements with major meat exporters such as South America, Mexico and, soon, Australia and New Zealand. Ever since the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 introduced the notion in EU fundamental law that animals are “sentient …
The European Parliament endorsed by an overwhelming majority a new piece of trade defence legislation that amends EU methods to determine the normal value of a product and injury to domestic industry from dumping. The legislation comes as the EU prepares to drop countries like China and Vietnam from …
Updated on 13 November 2017 at 14.45 CET. The EU is preparing to launch negotiations with Chile to update their 2002 Association Agreement and include new topics such as services trade, procurement, agriculture and new rules on sustainable development, gender equality, possibly protection of indigenous peoples. Member states …
Today EU member states gathered around the Commission to take stock of various free trade agreement files. Here a run through what we have gathered at the foreign affairs Council and during the past week in Brussels. EU Mercosur and EU Mexico free trade negotiations “We are now entering …
There is intensive lobbying by European sugar beet growers against the prospect of widening of EU quotas for non EU cane sugar as part of ongoing bilateral free trade negotiations. Yet it might only be a matter of time until the EU allows more import of cane sugar from outside …
The EU and Mexico are holding technical talks this week ahead of a formal new round of negotiations later this month. The pressure is on both sides to conclude talks to modernise their 2000 trade agreement – which is folded into what is known as the Global Agreement. Significant challenges …
EU health and safety measures for food products were a key focus of a meeting at the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Monday (06 November 2017). MC11 flop on Maximum Residue Levels The meeting of the WTO committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures examined a United States …
