News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, May 9, 2025
A read through amendments tabled by trade committee members in preparation of a report on and trip to China highlights Europe’s divisions vis-à-vis the Asian country. One of the few areas of consensus is support for Taiwan. A delegation of European parliamentarians is in China this week to assess EU-China …
With holidays in Europe this week on Tuesday and Thursday, it’s a given that the news flow will ease a bit. So it’s a particularly good time for a group of European Parliament trade committee members to head to China to get a better handle on the state of EU-China …
China may use subsidies to prop up a range of domestic industries, but oversupply in these sectors has little impact on global trade, a Swiss-based trade watchdog says in a new report on the current steel glut and protectionism.
Import quotas on sensitive agricultural products opened in the EU’s latest FTAs appear to be of little use to both exporters and importers. The last round of EU-Mercosur trade negotiations held last week ended in acrimony. Both EU agriculture market access – aka quotas on beef, sugar and ethanol …
The EU obtained a one-month extension of a reprieve from planned US import tariffs on steel and aluminium. The duties were expected to kick in today. The deadline was set in late March as the US sought to negotiate new deals with its trading partners in return for a reprieve from …
There are just two key items on the EU trade agenda this week – which of course is shortened a bit by the Labour Day holiday tomorrow – but both are of widespread interest: the divisive US tariffs on steel and aluminium and Brexit. The European Parliament is also meeting …
Two big countries dominated the agenda on trade in Brussels this week: the United States and China. Both topics are not unrelated. In this regard, a lot happened in the WTO – see Jennifer’s stories here, here and here. Another topic that has kept EU leaders busy is the bloc’s …
This week, the European Parliament’s international trade committee debated the 474 amendments tabled by MEPs on the EU’s investment screening legislation. Our analysis of the amendments and of the debate reveals there are eight key dividing lines in the EU over the proposal tabled by the European Commission last autumn. …
There are only a few days to go before the EU learns whether it will manage to sidestep US duties on steel and aluminium. In March, the Trump administration granted the bloc and five countries temporary exemptions from tariffs adopted on national security grounds until 1 May, hoping to extract …
The EU can expect legal challenges against its new law to protect the bloc against dumped and subsidized imports. That message came out loud and clear during a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices. The European regulation, which entered into force on 20 December, establishes …
