News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The World Trade Organization is yet to announce the result of a first round of ‘confessionals’ as part of an iterative elimination process aimed at nailing down one final winner. But the name of the three candidates who are to formally drop out of the race early to become the …
Welcome back to our WTO Corner column for regular updates on trade diplomacy in Geneva. Panel gives China a full win in Section 301 tariff case The majority of WTO law experts would have said this case was a no-brainer. The panellists appointed to judge on the matter thought so …
There is a small hiatus in EU trade policy as the European Commission awaits final confirmation of Valdis Dombrovskis as the next commissioner in charge of trade policy. But the Latvian top commission executive has played his care-taker role in full since late August and taken charge of the EU’s …
MPIA state of play EU appeals ‘into void’ in Russia anti-dumping dispute To many, the move will seem highly ironic. The EU is not pleased with a July WTO panel ruling regarding anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate and steel pipes in a case filed by Russia – so it is …
“Human mobility constitutes services trade in its own right, while also enabling trade in goods and other services,” reads a thought-piece on the impact of COVID-19 travel restrictions on international trade put together by the secretariat of the World Trade Organization.
The conveners of the plurilateral e-commerce negotiations discreetly circulated a “stocktake” text on electronic commerce amongst World Trade Organization members at the height of the mid-August European heatwave. The e-commerce negotiations were launched among a subset of WTO members in February 2019 following a pledge at the last Buenos Aires …
So Washington will slap 25% tariffs on French and German jams, fruit, liqueurs, pork meats and knives following a revision process of its tariffs imposed on aircraft and food and drink products following its victory in the World Trade Organization case brought against the EU subsidies to Airbus. Five quick …
It has happened regularly in the past: the EU may not be in a position to hold a united position on whom it backs as a candidate to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization. One might be surprised at this notion given that trade policy is an …
The Geneva trade scene will be run by a different set of people as of this autumn….E-commerce negotiators now have a plan. And agriculture producers are be sparring about support to the sector under COVID-19 conditions. People churn in Geneva So, the WTO’s preferred candidate for the post to lead …
On Friday a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel established at the behest of Russia ruled that the European Union’s ‘cost adjustment methodology’ relating to how it accounts for raw material input costs on exports of products it deems ‘dumped’ was not compliant with the global trade rule-book. The ruling …
