The European Commission is throwing away its traditional shyness in resorting to import safeguards.
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Trade defence: EU Commission eyes continued case load surge
The European Commission is working on an increasing workload of trade defence cases, is eyeing the end of its 2018 steel safeguard and plans to continue to focus on circumvention of anti-dumping or countervailing duties.
EU extends steel safeguard for final two years
The European Commission is extending a steel import safeguard it introduced in 2018 for another two years, until 30 July 2026. The decision is flanked by a range of adjustments, such as capturing imports from Mozambique. The European Union will also cap how much steel any country can monopolise within generic quotas. …
Swiss press EU to uphold steel trade ahead of safeguard extension
Bern is bent on avoiding that Switzerland’s steel exporters continue to be negatively affected by the European Union’s steel safeguard introduced in 2018 ahead of the measure’s expected extension.
Updated: European Commission initiates steel safeguard extension proceedings
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 …
Steel safeguard: EU opens slew of duty free quotas to developing countries
The European Commission will not stop applying its import safeguard on steel just this year, despite having investigated the matter. Instead, the overall volume that is allowed into the EU market under the steel safeguard will increase by 4% next month – and a slew of country-specific quotas for developing …
Landmark ruling: ECJ slaps down Cambodia rice import safeguard
It took three and a half years for the General Court in Luxembourg to rule that a now-lapsed three-year safeguard on imports of Indica rice from Cambodia and Myanmar was illegal. EU judges in essence said that the European Commission had not defined the allegedly hurt industry appropriately, that it …
Week in Brussels: Deforestation regulation outcry, steel safeguard revision, Petriccione loss
It’s still very quiet in Brussels but trade policy has started stirring ahead of a packed rentrée next week.
WTO panel lenient on EU steel safeguard
Part Two of the recent Turkey-EU trade dispute settlement saga around pharmaceuticals and steel is ending today with a panel report that goes easy on Brussels in its handling of its 2018 steel safeguard measure. Even if the panel did not give the EU a clean slate in the way …
Week in Brussels: Russia WTO dispute now on, steel safeguard revision, aluminium
Borderlex will be in recess as of tomorrow (22 December) for about a fortnight due to the festive season. So we are fast-forwarding our usual Friday Week in Brussels column for you…
