Commissioner Malmström is sending Jean-Luc Demarty, the Director-General of DG Trade, to China to meet Chinese trade officials ahead of a planned meeting between herself and Mr Gao Hucheng, her Chinese counterpart, in the coming weeks. The move comes at a tense moment in bilateral relations as the EU …
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The three Trump advisers to watch on trade
President elect Donal Trump has been putting together his transitional advisory team. The advisors he chose largely reflect views Mr Trump himself aired throughout his election campaign. We have: one Republican calling for NAFTA renegotiation, a steel magnate irate about China, and an economist accusing China of all ills, …
De Gucht: TTIP is dead
Former EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht, who launched the transatlantic TTIP negotiations in 2013, said “TTIP, at least for the time being, is dead”. This is in reaction to the election of Donald Trump to become the 45th US president of the United States, and ahead of gathering …
New EU trade defence methodology strikingly similar to previous – lawyers
Plus ça change. That’s how one could summarise the Commission’s approach to changing its current methodology applied to antidumping cases against China. Ahead of a move to do away with treating China as a planned economy in its trade defence law in December this year, the EU Commission is inventing …
EU China MES move makes few people happy
The EU’s proposal to change its antidumping legislation to prepare for a removal of China of its list of non market economies is being greeted with scepticism on both sides of the argument.
Quick take: So it’s Trump
There will be a lot of ink shed on what a Trump presidency means for US trade policy, for TPP, and, in Europe, for TTIP. The fact is: we do not know. In the short term all these projects will not likely move ahead. More fundamentally, trade policy might be …
Blog: What if it’s Trump – and what if it isn’t?
There are two must-read papers for European (and other) trading partners of the United States while we wait, transfixed, for the result of the most fateful presidential elections in our time: the Peterson Institute’s Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign and Richard Katz’s Is the TPP Making the United …
MEP Scholz: EU could have done more for Ecuador
In an exclusive interview with Borderlex, MEP Helmut Scholz explains why he thinks Ecuador’s accession to a free trade deal with Peru and Colombia needs to be supported, and why the EU needs to do more to promote labour, human rights and environment in the multilateral trading system.
EU trade defence proposal – what to expect?
There is a lot of speculation about the exact content of the planned trade defence instrument overhaul the Commission will propose ahead of a December deadline to stop treating China as a non market economy in its antidumping proceedings. The proposal is expected to be sent to member states and …
In brief: Anti CETA and TTIP protests not abating
Is the final green light to CETA signature given by the Walloon government late October radicalising the anti CETA and TTIP protest movement? There are signs this is the case. On Thursday evening demonstrators put on a big anti CETA show in front of the EU Parliament on place du …
