News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
This week is no week of big gathering or events, but the trade policy churn in Brussels – and also in Geneva – is continuing unabated. The WTO will be holding working party and committee meetings on dispute settlement (today Monday 23 October 2017), on subsidies and countervailing measures …
Leaders of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries group gathered in Brussels on Friday (20 October 2017) in a ministerial meeting with the European Union attended by the World Trade Organization’s chief, Roberto Azevêdo, and Argentina’s representative for the WTO’s upcoming 11th ministerial conference, Susana Malcorra. The gathering comes …
Britain and the European Union have formally notified their intention to table proposals at the World Trade Organization in view of establishing an independent schedule of commitments for the United Kingdom as the country prepares to leave the EU by March 2019. A joint letter to the world trade …
A large subset of members of the World Trade Organization are meeting in Marrakesh to make progress on various files that could form the basis of an agreement in the big biennial Buenos Aires ministerial meeting to be held in December 2017. For this meeting, the EU joined hands …
At a dispute settlement body meeting on Friday (29 September 2017) at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, there was no sign of Washington relenting in its drive to block the nomination process of three new Appellate Body members after one mandate lapsed, another is set to expire, and one judge …
Despite bright sunny weather, there is a cloud hanging over the World Trade Organization’s headquarters on the shores of lake Geneva.
A rift between a large group of leading World Trade Organization members and the United States deepened on Friday (15 September 2017) as an informal dispute settlement body meeting ended with no agreement on the appointment of three Appellate Body members. Washington is blocking the appointments of successors to …
The latest Appellate Body report confirms that it has jurisdiction over expired measures when these are annulled or lapse during a dispute settlement proceeding in the World Trade Organization. It also rebuffs once more the EU for not properly disclosing information to the foreign companies it investigates in trade defence …
The WTO’s Appellate Body issued a report that overturned a November 2016 ruling regarding a case Brussels brought against Washington on subsidies in favour of the the aerospace giant Boeing. The ruling comes at a critical time for the future of the Appellate Body in Geneva. At this very …
When the EU decided not to renew ‘countervailing duties’ on imports of polyethylene telephtalate from Pakistan in September 2015 that had been in place for a decade, the South Asian government initially considered withdrawing a complaint it had filed a few months earlier against these measures in the WTO. …
