Continued from Part 1. Crisis-stricken steel sector in lead against China MES
Defensive trade policy
BIG READ – PART 1: China MES, the steel crisis, and the EU
The current European and global debate over whether WTO members should treat China as a market economy in their domestic trade defence laws is also a battle over the future business model of a crisis stricken steel industry, and over the integrity of the global trading system. The unfolding saga, viewed …
EU trade ministers to hold first talks on granting China MES
Trade ministers will air their differences today (2 February) on the tricky issue of granting China market economy status starting in December, which Beijing considers to be ‘automatic’, following its admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Daniela Vincenti reports.
It’s the antidumping stupid – understanding what drives the China MES controversy
Why the EU will not kick the China antidumping habit so quickly By Iana Dreyer.
COMMENT: All moral now? The EU seal product ban – Updated on 15/09
The European Parliament has enacted legislation to put a 2009 seal product sale ban in compliance with World Trade Organization rules. Those rules in fact force the EU to be even more ‘moral’ than it intended to. In practice, the seal product ban raises new moral questions: but that’s beyond the remit of …
EU Commission trade defence practices under growing scrutiny
The EU Commission’s trade directorate’s way of handling trade defence cases is coming under increased scrutiny, as shown by a new EU Parliament report and a rising number of WTO dispute settlement cases. By Iana Dreyer.
OUTLOOK: Autumn 2015 EU trade policy agenda
Welcome back to work, trade folks! Iana Dreyer outlines what’s on the long to-do list of the European Union’s trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in Brussels.
Comment: Russia’s WTO gripes about EU gas market laws
Russia has formally requested that a dispute settlement panel be established at the World Trade Organization to rule on its complaints against EU energy market laws. From a legal and geopoliticial perspective, this is perhaps one of the most interesting cases the WTO will have to deal with in the near future. By …
Analysis: Beyond the law: the politics of the EU’s debate on China’s market economy status
Legal considerations will likely come second only in determining whether Brussels will grant China the market economy status it feels entitled to obtain in its trade relations with the European Union. By Iana Dreyer.
Of paper and fertilisers: moving from politics to law in EU Russia trade disputes
A fourth dispute settlement panel within less than two years to rule on a case between the EU and Russia will soon be established at the World Trade Organization. Is the rising number of trade cases brought by Brussels against Moscow in Geneva the continuation of trade war by other means in a bilateral relationship …
