News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Seeing that the World bTrade Organization survives, and that its dispute settlement function survives, remains independent and keeps is ‘bite’, is one of the EU’s current strategic priorities. In practice, the WTO dispute settlement system will weaken regardless of EU efforts to amend it, and the bloc will increasingly take …
Venezuela struck back this week against US sanctions targeting the government of President Nicolás Maduro, filing a World Trade Organization complaint that accuses Washington of imposing “coercive trade-restrictive measures on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the context of attempts to isolate Venezuela economically”. The dispute is the latest touching …
The first full working week of the new year will see the EU focus on World Trade Organization issues. Trilateral US Japan EU Trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström will be in Washington tomorrow to meet her US and Japanese counterparts and discuss topics of joint interest in relation to WTO rules …
Jennifer Freedman explains what awaits the World Trade Organization in 2019.
The US and a dozen other World Trade Organization members have finally agreed about something concerning the Appellate Body: the WTO’s highest court has no authority to issue rulings that set a binding precedent. This issue is a non-issue in the eyes of WTO members including the EU, Canada, Japan …
Formal EU proposals to reform the World Trade Organization don’t go far enough in pulling in the reins of Appellate Body judges, the US ambassador to the WTO said this week. The appellate function will continue for now on the basis of a rotation system.
The measures at stake are at the heart of the current conversation in the World Trade Organization on how to discipline subsidies to coddled industrial sectors and on the treatment of developing countries in the organisation.
China has joined a host of other World Trade Organization members in calling for WTO reforms and is actively working on its own proposal on how to tackle problems at the Geneva-based trade body. But with many Chinese policies in the crosshairs of a joint reform proposal by the EU, …
The launch of dispute panels on US Section 232 panels has brought explosive bilateral power-playing by the US right into the heart of the World Trade Organization, argues Iana Dreyer.
It comes as little surprise that the World Trade Organization expects global merchandise trade to continue decelerating in the coming months – but it’s bad news, nonetheless. Mounting trade tensions, tighter credit conditions in key markets and waning business confidence have caused export orders to fall, the WTO said in …
