News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The European Union, the United States and Japan have agreed to resume dormant talks aimed at agreeing on joint principles related to industrial subsidisation, which they would like the World Trade Organization to endorse in a potential future reform process.
The international trade committee of the European Parliament has begun work on the European Commission’s regulatory proposal on “foreign subsidies distorting the internal market”. Its members are eyeing tighter conditions than originally laid out by the EU executive for triggering investigations.
To save the profits of seven producers of plywood in two or three European Union countries. Or to preserve or the income – in some cases ensure the survival of – 133 mainly SMEs across 25 countries. This choice was given to the European Commission. And the Commission is expected …
The European Commission carved out a long list of products from a final decision on anti-dumping duties for aluminium flat-rolled products originating in China.
The move comes as the EU executive has practically decided to suspend import duties on another aluminium product: flat-rolled items from China.
The European Commission released its annual report on its trade defence activity. Every year, the piece highlights key trends in the overall direction of this line of policy. While the quantity of trade defence cases has risen slightly, the focus of the Commission is on better enforcement of existing measures …
MEPs are sharpening up the European Parliament’s position ahead of negotiations with the Council and the European Commission aimed at finalising a long-awaited regulation that would potentially put up barriers for bidders on public procurement markets in Europe.
If anything, this week in trade in Brussels was about preparing the ground for what comes next in the autumn 2021.
It’s been the kind of week that is sprinkled with a slew of ‘little’ news but little that is earth-shattering. Some news were rather big such as the launch of investment promotion agreement negotiations with Angola, the announcement that the EU and Kenya will apply their EPA bilaterally or the …
The European Union is planning to extend its three-year safeguard into imports of steel for another three years, in a move that is unprecedented in the EU’s trade defence history.
