News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Not surprisingly, Moscow has announced that it plans to fight efforts by the EU to slap 1.39 billion euros in trade sanctions on Russia for failing to lift a ban on European pork and pigs. If the EU convinces World Trade Organization judges that Russia continues to flout global trade …
The new year begins rather slowly, but with optimism that the EU and Mexico will soon manage to clinch their updated trade deal. The eighth round of talks will be held this week in Mexico after the two sides failed to secure the modernised accord before Christmas. Following the …
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 …
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.
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 …
Don’t expect the World Trade Organization to rule any time soon on China’s challenge of the EU’s free-market rules. Well over four months have passed since the three panellists who will adjudicate the case were appointed, but the panel is only holding its first meeting next week. That meeting is …
The European Parliament endorsed by an overwhelming majority a new piece of trade defence legislation that amends EU methods to determine the normal value of a product and injury to domestic industry from dumping. The legislation comes as the EU prepares to drop countries like China and Vietnam from …
It’s a hot week in the World Trade Organization as members spar over disputes and trade remedies. On Wednesday (25 October 2017) the Committee of Antidumping Practices examined among others the EU’s new trade defence legislation. Eleven WTO members criticised the EU’s planned overhaul of the way it calculates dumping …
