In their first formal meeting after the new EU commission team took office early November, EU member states requested that the EU body in charge of trade negotiations steer ahead with dormant talks with the United States (US) on their planned transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).
EU trade policies
In brief: TTIP transparency boost
On 3 December, the EU commission will propose a series of measures to increase the transparency of the current transatlantic trade and investment parthership (TTIP) negotiations to the European parliament. The type of measures expected to be proposed by the EU commission are based on two pillars: extending access to TTIP texts to all members of the European …
Blog: Malmström’s first official speech – reading between the lines
The new EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström’s first speech was held yesterday at a gathering organised by the EU parliamentary group of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) on TTIP and consumers. Below is what we read in between the lines of her statements.
Comment: Moldova after DCFTA ratification: watch the gas trade, the banks, and, yes, look out for tanks
All eyes are on the Ukraine crisis these days. Today, EU leaders are preparing to issue a new list of individuals active in the breakaway regions of Donbass who will be barred from entering the EU and whose assets will be frozen. But what about Moldova? Without a more thorough strategy to strengthen the …
Obama, EU leaders call for new momentum in TTIP talks
[sh_light_text ]Though the G20 Brisbane summit’s key pledges this week-end have focused on taxation and finance, trade policy has received its fair share of attention, with both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and bilateral trade agreements having witnessed progress on key dossiers in recent days.[/sh_light_text]
Comment: Trade defence activity up again in EU?
Preliminary data released by the European Union’s (EU) commission in Brussels on Friday covering its trade defence activity reveal that its case load could be trending up again. Eleven new anti-dumping or anti-subsidy investigations were launched in the first ten months of 2014.
Comment: G20 and protectionism: What’s there to (really) worry about?
[sh_light_text ]Has G20 protectionism been talked up too much? The latest World Trade Organization (WTO) report, published jointly with the OECD, on trade restrictive measures in the G20 group of leading industrial economies and emerging markets, reveals that protectionism has not significantly been on the rise. Yet there are ‘murky’ areas of …
After Malmström in Berlin – German government not likely to oppose ISDS in CETA and TTIP
After European trade commissioner Malmström’s visit to Berlin on Monday, the likelihood that the Canada-EU trade deal (CETA) finalised last September will be derailed because of German opposition to its investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses appears extremely low. So are the odds that Germany will oppose ISDS in the ongoing transatlantic trade and investment partnership …
A decade of exposure to EU trade defence instruments – Pakistan vs. EU at the WTO
[sh_light_text ]Pakistan brought a case against the European Union (EU) to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement body this week. Pakistan contests the bloc’s anti-subsidy import taxes on material used to produce plastic bottles. We’ve looked into the history of the case and found the story is ten years old …
Planned EU-Myanmar investment treaty’s challenges set out in EP trade committee
[sh_light_text ]The European Union (EU) and Myanmar recently embarked on bilateral investment protection negotiations. At a hearing at the EU parliament today, the deal’s enormous challenges were set out.[/sh_light_text]
