This week it’s China that will be mainly in focus on the EU’s trade agenda. Trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström will travel to South Korea and Japan to take stock of trade relations. In Geneva, the work of the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body will resume having been interrupted over …
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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 …
