By Iana Dreyer This has been a sad summer for Europe. The fact that holiday pleasures for those who enjoyed some were dampened by bad weather turns out to be a minor inconvenience in a season overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, the political unravellings in the Middle East, and bad news for the economy in Eurozone’s core economies, including …
Defensive trade policy
Blog: Antidumping in the EU 2014 – the first six months
The EU Commission recently released statistics of the bloc’s first months of antidumping and anti-subsidy cases.
EU member state & stakeholder split jeopardises planned trade defence reforms
[sh_light_text ]Reforming the European Union’s (EU) approach to protecting its industries and associated jobs from illegal or unfair trade practices will pose one of the greatest challenges to the incoming European Parliament and Commission. [/sh_light_text] By Rory Cahill
Blog: UNCTAD & WTO reports on investment & trade measures – EU in all this
Yesterday, new facts and numbers of about international trade and investment policies came out of Geneva. A short UNCTAD-OECD report on G20 Investment Measures was published, and the WTO released its semi-annual report on trade measures as a means to track down protectionist tendencies. Borderlex is interested in how Europe is …
Analysis: Antidumping duties on EU vehicles: competitive pressures in the Russian car market
The EU requested a WTO dispute settlement consultation on Russia’s antidumping duties. The move was announced yesterday. The case reveals several interesting facts about Russia’s economy and car sector. The rising number of dispute settlement cases at the WTO initiated by both the EU and Russia is often perceived as geopolitical. Indeed, the case coincides …
News update: Russia tests the waters of WTO dispute settlement with EU complaints
[sh_light_text ]Less than two years after becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russia has filed two complaints with its dispute settlement body in Geneva that target the European Union, Russia’s main trading partner. These complaints concern antidumping duties and a package of EU laws that govern the …
