News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Since free trade talks between the EU and the South American bloc Mercosur were revived in 2016, there has been no serious negotiation on one of the most sensitive topics in their trading relationship: sugar. But EU and Brazil sugar industries are already active on the battleground over what could …
UK trade secretary Liam Fox is in the United States for two days of talks with US counterparts as part of a recently established US-UK trade and investment working group. Fox will further travel to Mexico. Fox is on a mission to reassure its partners that Britain will deliver stability …
The EU and China are overtly wrangling over how to handle trade defence cases under World Trade Organization rules. The WTO released working documents today that have been circulating among members of the body’s working group on rules that showcase how intense the disagreements currently run in the organisation over subsidy …
There’s been a frenzy of EU trade related activity this week. It looks like it’s a big rush before the summer lull. Here a curation of what we found interesting. EU and WTO round-up The EU is pressing its fellow WTO members on fisheries subsidies ahead of the Buenos Aires …
The EU and Mexico have had an extensive two weeks of negotiations on the upgrade of their 2001 FTA between 21 June and 5 July 2017. A Commission report circulated to member states but not made public and seen by Borderlex reveals that although the talks have overall been productive, there …
The EU is preparing to launch negotiations to modernise a 2002 Association Agreement with Chile that includes a free trade agreement. Trade MEPs agreed on their wish list for the negotiations during a trade committee vote on Tuesday (11 July 2017). Agreement did not go without a small amendment game over the issue of …
Borderlex’s editor Iana Dreyer on Talk Media News radio programme Wake dissecting the EU Japan Free Trade Agreement alongside the Peterson Institute’s Caroline Freund and Brooking’s Joshua Meltzer. Listen HERE.
Diplomats at the G20 summit in Hamburg hosted by Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to cobble together a compromise text promising not to resort to trade protectionism. Whether their joint statement will eliminate the threat of trade wars or, possibly, the tearing apart of the World Trade Organization, remains to be …
Praise for any aspect of an EU free trade agreements is sparse in the NGO world. But among the flood of overall predictable press statements from business circles and anti trade campaign groups we have received on the EU Japan free trade pact concluded ‘politically’ in Brussels on Thursday (6 July 2017), one stands …
A first piece of commentary on the deal that was agreed today in Brussels.
