News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
US Senator Chris Murphy published a piece in the Financial Times today arguing that the US must continue on its path of retreating from the recently concluded e-commerce agreement at the World Trade Organization, which Washington stopped supporting. This is a good moment to set the record straight on this …
The secretariat of the World Trade Organization unveiled the 30-year-institution’s first-ever strategy, which aims to give direction to its activities amidst growing concerns about the future and finances of the institution.
The recently concluded negotiations on an agreement on digital trade rules by more than 80 members of the World Trade Organization have received hardly any notice in international business media. Some in the know believe the text is significant and needs to be adopted, despite its many shortcomings and the …
It’s as if the WTO is becoming a key venue for the EU to settle its disputes with trading partners at a time when the United States is retreat.
Speaking at an event hosted by the think tank Peterson Institute in Washington, the World Trade Organization’s director-general Ngozi Okonjo Iweala called on members of the institution to make efforts to agree on how to handle national security in a time of growing geopolitical frictions. The leader of the WTO …
It’s been a big week for the big supply chain sustainability pieces of legislation of the soon-ending von der Leyen European Commission. A trilogue deal on forced labour was inked, and Coreper might well also endorse a watered-down version of the CSDDD corporate sustainability due diligence legislation today. It’s also …
The World Trade Organization released the panel report in one of the two cases brought by two world leading producers of palm oil against a European Union directive that excludes the oil produced in their countries from its future biofuels mix. The lengthy 348-page report does not settle for good …
Here a selection of think tank pieces on the current state of international trade policy…
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up to this week.
Borderlex sat down with Alan Wolff to discuss his new book Revitalizing the World Trading System.
