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.
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EU prosecutor enters fray in customs and anti-dumping enforcement
Trade policy folks watching enforcement of European Union trade policy now need to pay close attention to the activities of European Prosecutor’s Office. The EU’s supranational anti-corruption and fraud office established in 2021 to clamp down on fraud affecting EU funds has, over the last two weeks, issued hefty fines …
AEGIS calls for relaxation of EU trade defence rules
The alliance of European Union industries AEGIS Europe is calling on Brussels to step up its trade defensive action against China ahead of a coming leadership reshuffle following European Parliament elections.
EU TDI update: slew of new China and other provisional anti-dumping duties
The European Commission is not letting off in its trade defence activity targeting China. After having announced provisional duties on electric vehicles, the EU executive announced a slew of new provisional duties on products for which it launched new anti-dumping investigations in November 2023.
EU China TDI update: AS investigation into boom lifts, definitive PET duties
The European Commission initiated a new anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese exports to the European Union of ‘mobile access equipment’ – in other words, articulated boom lifts, telescopic boom lifts, scissor lifts, vertical masts and sections of and related parts and components.
Comment: The new face of EU trade defence policy
As the current European Commission finishes its term in the coming months, a range of pending decisions in this will tell us what the new face of EU trade defence policy really is.
New EU China biodiesel trade defence case
The European Commission launched its tenth initial trade defence investigation for 2023, of which eight target China and one is an anti-subsidy investigation. This doubles the number of new cases compared to 2022. And it will allow the commission to surgically target biodiesel imports from China.
Two new EU China anti-dumping cases focus on raw materials distortions
The European Commission initiated four new trade defence investigations only this week, two of them targeting Chinese products. This brings the total number of new anti-dumping cases initiated this year to seven, two more than Brussels launched in 2022.
EU, Indonesia reignite biodiesel trade squabbles
Welcome back to Borderlex after its small team took a much needed summer break ahead of a packed autumn of trade news to expect in Brussels, London and at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. The most notable news thus far in this scorching-hot European summer is the reignition of …
Week in Brussels: GSP scheme extension, Chile, ESA, Chinese beer kegs
This week it became clear that the European Commission is trying to wrap up a range of trade policy files before the EU institutions wind down for elections in the spring 2024. Another deadline is looming with the United States too over a deal on critical raw materials and on …
