World Trade Organization
Metals at heart of fresh EU dispute with China in WTO
Winning a case in the WTO against Chinese restrictions on rare earths back in 2014 was not enough for both the EU and the United States. Early October, Washington launched a new case against continued export restrictions by China on various minerals and metals. This week, the Brussels followed into …
TiSA parties toying with idea of doing deal without EU
The EU’s paralysis over trade policy, its snail-paced moves to table an offer on data flows in the TiSA talks (the EU has still not tabled one), and Brussels’ continued refusal to ban new restrictions on future yet unknown ‘new services’ is leading some of its counterparts in the ongoing services talks to …
EU should engage on data flows in TTIP to avoid WTO challenge, argues new legal study
TiSA: EU to table final market access offer
The last weeks of Trade in Services Agreement negotiations are ahead of us. Today (Friday 21 October) is the deadline for all parties to the talks to table their final market access offer. All eyes are on the EU’s offer, as all member have found Brussels’ last offer tabled in 2015 very …
USTR Froman sets out US vision of WTO
Borderlex usually doesn’t cover US American trade policy, except in the context of bilateral relationships, negotiations, or WTO disputes with the EU. It seems though that EU readers will be particularly interested in reading a transcript of a speech USTR Michael Froman gave in Geneva on Monday (17 October 2016). …
In brief: EU appeals WTO Airbus subsidy ruling
In an unsurprising move, the Commission has filed an appeal in the WTO against a ruling issued in September it lost on the grounds that EU member states had illegally subsidised the production of A350 and A 380 aircraft models for decades. The ruling came after a compliance assessment …
Appellate Body upholds WTO rebuff of EU antidumping duties on Argentinean biodiesel
The WTO’s appellate body upheld an earlier ruling outlawing EU antidumping duties on Argentinean biofuels. The case has broader ramifications for EU antidumping policy going forward as it follows on other converging rulings in the Court of Justice of the EU.
INTA Chair Lange worries China MES deadline will be missed
In a letter to Commissioner Malmström, the head of the European Parliament’s trade committee expressed concerns the EU was running late in tabling legislative proposals to ensure it in compliance with its WTO obligations ahead of a December 2016 deadline to grant China market economy treatment in its antidumping legislation. …
TiSA: dispute settlement and institutional settings appear – through EU prism
The EU has made public its proposals for the “administrative and institutional provisions” and for the dispute settlement chapter of the Trade in Services Agreement currently under negotiation among 23 WTO members. A comparison between the published document, which was tabled in late September during the last negotiation round and …
