News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, May 4, 2025
The EU and Japan are expected to announce they have concluded four-year-old free trade negotiations at a summit in Brussels attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (6 June 2017) in Brussels. They also plan to make a bigger point about free trade. The draft joint declaration, which …
The European Parliament endorsed a package of unilateral trade preferences granted to Ukraine on top of those contained in its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU. The scope of the extra market openings to the EU’s eastern neighbour was scaled down after MEPs voted down last month a first series …
In a new report, the Commission singled out Russia, India and Switzerland as sources of new barriers to European traders and investors in 2017, while it claimed success in contributing to the removal of various barriers, notably in South Korea and China. The report is the seventh of such nature based on the Commission’s Market …
Updated on 26 June 2017 13:11 CET European and Japanese negotiators have worked the whole week-end in Tokyo to try and clinch what they call a “broad agreement”, in other words the general outline of a free trade agreement the technicalities of which would be left for negotiators to finalise …
PSOE chief Pedro Sanchez announced his party would not ‘support CETA’, marking a notable u-turn. Spanish socialists, the main opposition party, have so far proven to be in favour of ratifying the EU Canada trade agreement, but internal divisions over the stance have come to the open. The party …
The world is watching as the United States holds a hearing on Thursday (22 June 2017) in Congress on the so-called Section 232 investigation, gauging whether imports of steel and aluminium harm US national security. After NATO members calling on the US not to harm exports of US allies, steel …
MEPs of the European Parliament’s trade committee adopted a report calling on the EU to go further than planned in a current move to overhaul the EU’s standard trade defence calculation methodology. The vote – with a majority of 33 INTA committee members in favour – comes as the EU prepares …
The European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament reached a political agreement in their ‘trilogue’ talks regarding unilateral trade preferences the EU is planning to grant Ukraine. The deal was sealed late in the night of 13 June 2017. The final offer to Ukraine could be made during …
A new study released by the Washington-based Peterson Institute reveals that German, British and French steel exports are likely to be hit most by new trade retaliatory measures initiated and envisaged by the Donald Trump administration since it took office in January 2017. The US has initiated various antidumping measures …
The Council meeting on agriculture and fisheries held in Brussels on Monday (12 June 2017) lay bare a deep divide over ongoing trade policy between a group of countries made up of Southern European countries, Ireland, and Central and Eastern European countries, and the rest of the EU. Eleven countries called on the EU to take a cautious …
