News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Stakeholders in international trade policy in Europe interested in an open economy need to face up to a few harsh truths. The first truth is that there will be no pro-active, free-market, let alone an effective trade policy in the coming months, if not years. Trade policy will remain reactive, …
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to be confirmed for a second term as president of the European Commission by the European Parliament today on the basis of a working programme for the years 2024-2029 that emphasizes security issues.
The European Commission is extending a steel import safeguard it introduced in 2018 for another two years, until 30 July 2026. The decision is flanked by a range of adjustments, such as capturing imports from Mozambique. The European Union will also cap how much steel any country can monopolise within generic quotas. …
The alliance of European Union industries AEGIS Europe is calling on Brussels to step up its trade defensive action against China ahead of a coming leadership reshuffle following European Parliament elections.
This week’s international think tanks’ focus: the trade implications from the European Union’s elections, reducing EU reliance on Chinese supply chains, the realities of United States’s industrial policy, ASEAN’s digital trade agenda – and streamlining EU action on critical raw materials.
On Friday the European Commission announced it was initiating a new bilateral legal dispute with Algeria under their joint Association Agreement in force since 2005. The ‘note verbale’ it sent to the Algerian government sets out the details of its complaint.
The European Commission is not letting off in its trade defence activity targeting China. After having announced provisional duties on electric vehicles, the EU executive announced a slew of new provisional duties on products for which it launched new anti-dumping investigations in November 2023.
The European Commission has announced the provisional levels of countervailing duties it will be levying on electric vehicles produced in China and signalled that it is ready to negotiate a “mutually agreed solution” with Beijing. The case is a snapshot in the subsidy and industrial battle the EU is waging …
It’s a quiet week in the international trade policy think tank world. There is one standout piece from the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington that focuses on United States and South Korean industrial policy and semiconductors.
The European Commission’s first merger-related foreign subsidies investigation targets a Middle Eastern operator buying shares into a Czech-owned investment firm specialised in funding European telecommunication companies.
