News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The European Commission is preparing to extend a steel import safeguard it introduced in 2018 to allay fears that metal destined to the United States would be diverted to Europe in the aftermath of president Trump’s Section 232 steel tariffs. The safeguard, initially introduced for a duration of three years …
The fifth EU US Trade and Technology Council meeting held on Tuesday in the United States has turned out as planned: as a staging post for another meeting to be held in April in Brussels. But not only.
The European Commission has released a long-anticipated package aiming at enhancing what it terms its “economic security”.
Trump, the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, energy security… and MSMEs. Here some highlights of what think tanks have written about in recent days.
As the current European Commission finishes its term in the coming months, a range of pending decisions in this will tell us what the new face of EU trade defence policy really is.
Happy New Year dear readers! Brussels has been very quiet this week, but activity is bound to pick up on Monday (8 January). Whoever from Brussels is still on on holiday will return to some uneasy realities that will need to be handled in the coming months as the EU …
The European Commission launched its tenth initial trade defence investigation for 2023, of which eight target China and one is an anti-subsidy investigation. This doubles the number of new cases compared to 2022. And it will allow the commission to surgically target biodiesel imports from China.
European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have put the bilateral trade relationship with China front and centre of their conversations with China’s president Xi Jinping at a summit in Beijing today. The conversations also covered questions of war and peace including the war …
The EU has made meaningful concessions to Japan in its negotiation on a cross-border data flow chapter that is to be annexed to the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, a trade accord that has been in operation since early 2021. The result is a quirky mixture of approaches to the …
The European Parliament is preparing to make its mark on the coming new European Union overhaul of its common customs code as its internal market committee and international trade committee prepare their report and opinion respectively on the project.
