News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
It’s trade defence stock-take week in Brussels. The European Commission released its annual report on its trade defence policy covering its activities in the year 2023. On the same day, the commission announced it will now systematically request that imports are registered the moment it initiates an investigation. But AEGIS …
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.
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.
The EU can expect legal challenges against its new law to protect the bloc against dumped and subsidized imports. That message came out loud and clear during a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices. The European regulation, which entered into force on 20 December, establishes …
Member states green-lighted a legislative compromise on a long-standing trade defence instrument reform package initiated in 2013. Last December the Council, European Commission and European Parliament reached a final political compromise after a lengthy trilogue negotiation process. The final text is expected to be adopted by EU legislators …
The negotiating history of China’s World Trade Organization accession protocol could play a central role in the outcome of Beijing’s WTO complaint about EU dumping methodologies, according to a new study that pinpoints weaknesses in the US and European interpretation of the controversial Article 15. Weihuan Zhou and Delei …
The legal arguments in Beijing’s World Trade Organization complaint challenging the EU’s refusal to treat China as a market economy in dumping probes should focus on the underlying ability of WTO members to ensure price comparability when dealing with economies where prices are distorted, the US and the EU argue. …
China tends to play its cards very close to its chest when it comes to World Trade Organization disputes. So Beijing’s decision to publish part of its oral statement to the WTO panel adjudicating its complaint about the EU’s refusal to treat China as a free economy underscores just how …
The 2013 plans to overhaul the EU’s trade defence legislation are coming to fruition. The EU’s new legislation aims to modernise the EU’s trade defence instruments. Revived in 2016, the package of new measures comprises greater transparency, efforts at greater predictability of measures for traders and EU importers, and …
The EU is set to introduce ‘future’ costs of compliance with environmental and labour treaties in its calculation of injury margins in trade-defence cases. The bloc is now making systematic its consideration of a trading partner’s compliance with International Labour Organization and ‘multilateral environmental’ conventions, including the 2015 Paris Agreement …
