News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, May 5, 2025
The EU appears to have innovated in the way it calculates the normal value of a product’s good in its future trade defence investigations. The European Council, the Commission and the European Parliament found common ground during a ‘trilogue meeting’ on Tuesday (3 October 2017) in Strasbourg. The …
The EU is preparing to table a new tariff offer to the South American trading bloc ahead of a new round of negotiations starting on Monday (2 October 2017). Eleven member states are attempting to put a brake on an offer to extend tariff rate quotes on beef, poultry, sugar, …
In early September 2017, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his government in response to news of slower economic growth following his team’s drastic clampdown on cash. ‘Demonetization’, as the reform is called to reduce the share of the informal economy in India, has taken a toll on growth levels. …
Trump or no Trump, TTIP or no TTIP: when regulators want to talk, they talk. This is what the ‘covered agreement’ on insurance and reinsurance between the US and EU formally signed today (21 September 2017) reveals. The move comes as formal and informal exchanges between EU and US officials …
As CETA comes into force provisionally on Thursday (21 September 2017), the following countries have ratified the EU Canadian trade agreement, Portugal being the latest one: Portugal (20 September) Czech Republic (13 September 2017) Malta (19 July 2017) Croatia (30 June 2017) Spain (29 June 2017) Denmark (1 June …
Not every day is scoop bonanza in trade policy. One of these days seems to be today. But there are a few files sizzling in the background that will lead to further stories down the road. CETA day coming Of course, tomorrow, 21 September, CETA is coming into …
In line with announcements made by president Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday (13 September 2017) in Strasbourg, the Commission released the draft mandate it is requesting from member states to negotiate free trade negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.
The expert commission on CETA set up by the French government to assess the agreement’s impact on EU environmental and health effects published its report on Friday (8 September 2016). It makes ten recommendations for further action on the EU Canada trade agreement. Follow-up moves by the French government will …
When the EU decided not to renew ‘countervailing duties’ on imports of polyethylene telephtalate from Pakistan in September 2015 that had been in place for a decade, the South Asian government initially considered withdrawing a complaint it had filed a few months earlier against these measures in the WTO. …
Sneaky. But unsurprising. France’s constitutional council delivered its verdict on the EU Canada CETA free trade agreement in the depths of summer. On the very last day of July 2017, France’s so-called ‘wise men’ disclosed that they had strictly no objections to the controversial trade deal which more than …
