There has been a lot of talk about EU trade defence policy recently. The focus is on the EU’s recent steel safeguard measures. In Brussels and some member states such as France, Italy, and increasingly in Germany, the public discussion focuses on the ‘defence’ aspect of the EU’s trade remedies …
Tag: antidumping
EU trade ministers to hold first talks on granting China MES
Trade ministers will air their differences today (2 February) on the tricky issue of granting China market economy status starting in December, which Beijing considers to be ‘automatic’, following its admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Daniela Vincenti reports.
It’s the antidumping stupid – understanding what drives the China MES controversy
Why the EU will not kick the China antidumping habit so quickly By Iana Dreyer.
In brief: China, steel, dominate year 2014 in EU trade defence
The EU Commission released its latest trade defence statistics today. These cover its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations over the year 2014. As suspected, trade defence activity has been up again compared with 2013, with Chinese firms the single most important target, and the iron and steel sector the single most important user of …
Comment: Trade defence activity up again in EU?
Preliminary data released by the European Union’s (EU) commission in Brussels on Friday covering its trade defence activity reveal that its case load could be trending up again. Eleven new anti-dumping or anti-subsidy investigations were launched in the first ten months of 2014.
Comment: G20 and protectionism: What’s there to (really) worry about?
[sh_light_text ]Has G20 protectionism been talked up too much? The latest World Trade Organization (WTO) report, published jointly with the OECD, on trade restrictive measures in the G20 group of leading industrial economies and emerging markets, reveals that protectionism has not significantly been on the rise. Yet there are ‘murky’ areas of …
A decade of exposure to EU trade defence instruments – Pakistan vs. EU at the WTO
[sh_light_text ]Pakistan brought a case against the European Union (EU) to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement body this week. Pakistan contests the bloc’s anti-subsidy import taxes on material used to produce plastic bottles. We’ve looked into the history of the case and found the story is ten years old …
Blog: Antidumping in the EU 2014 – the first six months
The EU Commission recently released statistics of the bloc’s first months of antidumping and anti-subsidy cases.
EU member state & stakeholder split jeopardises planned trade defence reforms
[sh_light_text ]Reforming the European Union’s (EU) approach to protecting its industries and associated jobs from illegal or unfair trade practices will pose one of the greatest challenges to the incoming European Parliament and Commission. [/sh_light_text] By Rory Cahill
Blog: UNCTAD & WTO reports on investment & trade measures – EU in all this
Yesterday, new facts and numbers of about international trade and investment policies came out of Geneva. A short UNCTAD-OECD report on G20 Investment Measures was published, and the WTO released its semi-annual report on trade measures as a means to track down protectionist tendencies. Borderlex is interested in how Europe is …
