News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The European Commission is suddenly rolling out on a grand scale a new regulation seeking to clamp down on distortions created in the European Union single market by foreign companies investing in Europe. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation started operating in October 2023. Six months on, the action the regulation’s unofficial …
The European Commission initiated a new anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese exports to the European Union of ‘mobile access equipment’ – in other words, articulated boom lifts, telescopic boom lifts, scissor lifts, vertical masts and sections of and related parts and components.
It’s been a big week for the big supply chain sustainability pieces of legislation of the soon-ending von der Leyen European Commission. A trilogue deal on forced labour was inked, and Coreper might well also endorse a watered-down version of the CSDDD corporate sustainability due diligence legislation today. It’s also …
EU institutions are in a rush to finalise flagship legislation aiming to reduce industrial supply chain exposure to human rights abuses an environmental damages. The Belgian EU presidency hopes to announce an agreement of ambassadors to the EU tomorrow, Friday 8 March on the corpororate sustainability due diligence directive known …
The European Parliament’s international trade committee adopted without amendments a regulation renewing unilateral trade preferences offered to Ukraine to support its war-torn economy.
The high-profile anti-subsidy investigation against imports of electric vehicles from China launched by the EU last autumn is proceeding at pace. On Tuesday the European Commission said it would have car imports subject to registration, with a view to potentially imposing duties retroactively on the registered cars. Preliminary duties could …
The World Trade Organization released the panel report in one of the two cases brought by two world leading producers of palm oil against a European Union directive that excludes the oil produced in their countries from its future biofuels mix. The lengthy 348-page report does not settle for good …
The three EU institutions finalised overnight negotiations putting the finishing touches on a regulation that enacts a formal ban on products made with forced labour.
The European Parliament has voted by a large majority of 600 in favour of a reform of the statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union that could have long-term implications on the way some issues related to international trade policy are adjudicated.
The European Union’s ongoing standard-setting exercise for cloud service cybersecurity has become a high-stakes behind-the scenes geopolitical tussle. It could open up a new front in the world of never-ending EU-US trade frictions if local ownership requirements make their way into the EU digital ecosystem. Inevitable politics Member state civil …
