Think tanks are busy churning out content and context on EU and US green tech industrial policies.
Industrial policy & trade
Blog: Is the Net Zero Industry Act protectionist?
There have been concerns that the regulation draft the European Union released today in response to the United States might contain discriminatory and WTO-incompatible provisions. At first sight, the Net Zero Industry Act does not appear to do so. However, the way the regulation’s provisions on ‘access to markets’ are …
EU eyes critical raw material duty suspensions as part of new strategy
The European Commission released today a long-announced critical raw materials communication and a flanking Critical Raw Materials Act. The document spells out how the EU is planning to reduce its vulnerability to disruptions to critical raw materials supplies as demand for these products is inexorably rising as it rolls out …
Opinion: Stop obsessing about Washington, make better climate, China policies
The European Commission obtained very little from Washington in terms of concessions on the Inflation Reduction Act this week. There is in fact, little the EU can do to see the United States change course. In many ways the whole diplomatic episode around US clean tech subsidies that began in …
EU sharpens retaliatory toolbox against US, foreign green tech distortions
The European Commission is an expert in brokering political compromises over seemingly technocratic topics. And it delivered this week yet again. This time it is about the question of what to do about the Biden administration’s decision to pour billions into subsidising green technology investments to meet its net-zero climate …
Week in Brussels: Critical raw materials focus
The EU is getting serious in securing its future supply chains as it eyes a few net-zero deadlines in 2030 and 2050 as well the phase-out of the combustion engine for automobiles in only thirteen years. This is heavily impacting its industrial, trade and investment policy – and that includes …
THINK TANK: Multilateralism worth saving
The WTO says multilateralism has helped keep the food price crisis in check after the war in Ukraine. And the think tank Bruegel chimes in with its own report on how the EU should respond to US green subsidies.
Blog : More of the same? On the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan
Those in the trade policy world who are looking for some big bang announcement from the European Commission as part of its ‘response’ to the United States Inflation Reduction Act will be disappointed – or relieved, depending on their point of view. The Green Deal Industrial Plan, a leaked version …
Blog: That “tangible” TTC outcome
A bit of sarcasm can’t do any harm, right?
EU farm group warns of fertiliser market distortions as commission acts to ease shortages
EU farming lobby groups expressed frustration at European Commission plans unveiled today to help ease bottlenecks and price shocks in the supply of fertilisers.
