News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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 …
This article was updated to reflect the final list of signatories of the e-commerce declaration. The four-day ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires that is to end today is not delivering on ‘classic’ World Trade Organization outcomes, such as a trade liberalisation agreement comparable to the updated Information Technology Agreement …
We are midway into the Buenos Aires World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. Here’s what’s shaping up: likely no formal deal, all fending for themselves, some serious work on e-commerce going forward – and India in all this. No actual deal, abundant work programmes Negotiators hoped that there could …
A confidential note obtained by Borderlex shows that extending the mandate of World Trade Organization Appellate Body judges has been common practice in Geneva for many years. As the crisis over the nomination of new judges deepens, Washington doesn’t seem to have addressed that fact.
All eyes are on the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires this week. But there are other issues on the table back in Europe: digital and EU-China investment negotiations. All eyes on Buenos Aires There is little hope for a major concrete deliverable at the four-day …
The World Trade Organization has done a good job of tamping down any expectation that its upcoming ministerial meeting will agree on much of anything.
It’s been an eventful week in Brussels. EU-Japan FTA – on track The EU and Japan finalised their free trade agreement negotiations this morning. The full text of the deal will be available in a few days. These FTA negotiations were politically concluded this summer. Negotiators worked …
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Brussels yesterday, and trade was a formal talking point on the agenda for his meetings with Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief. But nothing came out on that meeting on this topic. While trans-Atlantic cooperation on trade is largely off the …
This week could seal the fate of quite a few EU trade policy files: the overhaul of the EU’s dumping regulation, the EU Mercosur trade deal and the Brexit talks. TDI reform agreement? Expectations are high that the EU will announce a deal tomorrow on the overhaul of …
This week’s trade highlights of the week have been: Latin America, the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement, trade defence and the EU’s multilateral investment court plans. Deal or no deal in Mercosur, that is the question The EU has been negotiating hard with both Mercosur and Mexico this week …
