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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
MEPs of the European Parliament’s trade committee adopted a report calling on the EU to go further than planned in a current move to overhaul the EU’s standard trade defence calculation methodology. The vote – with a majority of 33 INTA committee members in favour – comes as the EU prepares …
As the EU prepares to wrap up its trade defence reforms in the aftermath of China’s expected treatment as a market economy in antidumping cases, Euratex, the main European textile industry association has flagged a few risks taken by the Commission in its TDI overhaul. Euratex is generally sceptical …
China’s complaint to the WTO’s dispute settlement body on Monday was released on Thursday (15 December 2016) ahead of a meeting in Geneva. The text attacks the EU’s so-called ‘basic regulation’ and the relevant articles that single out China for a different treatment than other WTO members for the …
The compromise agreement reached by member states on Tuesday morning (13 December 2016) over the three-year old EU regulatory proposal to overhaul its trade defence legislation has been sent back to the European Parliament after two years of deadlock. It is set to face a rough ride there. Meanwhile, with …
Thanks to the “tireless efforts of the Slovak Presidency”, as Europe’s trade commissioner Malmström put it, member states have finally broken a long-standing internal deadlock in the EU over an overhaul of trade defence instruments in order to be able to remove China from a list of ‘planned’ or ‘non market’ …
EU member states have failed to reach a final compromise on the package of measures aimed at overhauling trade defence instrument legislation to accommodate for the planned end of the analogue country methodology currently applied to China. Member states had hoped to so by Sunday 11 December 2016, the expiry date, …
Member states have been working hard to reach a compromise package on overhauling EU trade defence law ahead of the long-awaited 11 December deadline enshrined in China’s WTO accession protocol obliging its partners to let go of the analogue country methodology applied to (former) planned economies, or ‘non market economies’. …
Plus ça change. That’s how one could summarise the Commission’s approach to changing its current methodology applied to antidumping cases against China. Ahead of a move to do away with treating China as a planned economy in its trade defence law in December this year, the EU Commission is inventing …
The EU’s proposal to change its antidumping legislation to prepare for a removal of China of its list of non market economies is being greeted with scepticism on both sides of the argument.
There is a lot of speculation about the exact content of the planned trade defence instrument overhaul the Commission will propose ahead of a December deadline to stop treating China as a non market economy in its antidumping proceedings. The proposal is expected to be sent to member states and …
