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  • Towards a climate club
    EU Carbon Border Measure, Free comment, Latest news

    Towards a climate club

    4 days ago 0 comments

    For the EU’s ambitious climate policy to be successful, the EU must join forces with as many international partners as possible in a climate club. In this club members agree on a minimum price for CO2 emissions, trade freely amongst themselves, but apply a carbon border adjustment mechanism – or …

  • Perspectives: Post-Brexit UK trade policy lacks innovation
    Brexit & UK trade, Perspectives

    Perspectives: Post-Brexit UK trade policy lacks innovation

    2 weeks ago 0 comments

    In three months of full trade policy independence the United Kingdom has moved from initial excitement to the realisation of difficulties. Perhaps the most striking feature of Britain’s approach to trade post Brexit is its lack of innovation. 

  • Perspectives: The EU must defend the global trading system
    Coronavirus response, Latest news, Perspectives

    Perspectives: The EU must defend the global trading system

    3 weeks ago 0 comments

    The European Union is the major economic power most consistently supportive of the global trade system. Hasty actions undermining this such as vaccine export bans would come at a high price to its standing.

  • Comment: The UK freeports programme’s big unanswered questions
    Freeports

    Comment: The UK freeports programme’s big unanswered questions

    3 weeks ago 1 comment

    The British government has proudly unveiled its blueprint for a chain of ‘freeports’ as a feature of the country’s post-Brexit trade landscape. But translating the “big idea” to reality on the ground will be a lot more complicated, writes Edward Farmer.

  • COVID-19 vaccines: Vite, a CVITA
    Coronavirus response, Latest news

    COVID-19 vaccines: Vite, a CVITA

    3 weeks ago 1 comment

    Instead of engaging in export controls, the world’s large vaccine producers should come together to clinch a ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Investment and Trade Agreement’, write Chad Bown and Thomas Bollyky in a new piece by the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics.

European Union

  • Week in Brussels: Uzbekistan, palm oil

  • EU Turkey customs union negotiation revival – what’s at stake

  • EU risks fresh trade rows over GI status for ‘halloumi’ cheese

  • Towards a climate club

  • Week in Brussels: Irking like-minded partners on vaccines exports, EU Mercosur stasis, CETA

 

EU-China trade and investment

  • Van Brempt report outlines parliament position on vaccine exports, TRIPS, China

    23/03/2021
    The European Parliament is preparing a report on trade policy post COVID-19. [...]
  • Quick roundup of recent trade policy news: US, China, Turkey

    23/03/2021
    It’s been an eventful one and a half days on the foreign policy front – [...]
  • Week in Brussels: Vaccines, China, CAI, Taiwan, Energy Charter Treaty

    12/03/2021
    As widely anticipated, the European Union extended on Thursday its export [...]
  • MEPs call for unilateral EU actions first before ratifying China investment agreement
  • Interview: Pursuing the bigger picture in Asia
  • EU China investment agreement: a thin deal
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Trade, energy and environment

  • Week in Brussels: Uzbekistan, palm oil

    09/04/2021
    It’s been a slow start after Easter, but the trade policy machinery in [...]
  • Towards a climate club

    06/04/2021
    For the EU’s ambitious climate policy to be successful, the EU must join [...]
  • Week in Brussels: Vaccines, China, CAI, Taiwan, Energy Charter Treaty

    12/03/2021
    As widely anticipated, the European Union extended on Thursday its export [...]
  • ‘Climate First’ European Parliament CBAM report watered down by free CO2 emission allowance vote
  • ECJ Advocate General: Intra-EU Energy Charter Treaty investor-state arbitration is illegal
  • France pours cold water on idea of swift EU Mercosur pact ratification
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South Asia, ASEAN

  • Interview: Pursuing the bigger picture in Asia

    09/02/2021
    Now that the European Union has inked an investment agreement with China it [...]
  • Week Ahead: Okonjo Iweala to lead WTO, EU and UK India focus, UNCITRAL, Northern Ireland

    08/02/2021
    WTO, India, ISDS reform and Northern Ireland in focus in today’s edition [...]
  • MEPs to keep China, Vietnam investment and trade agreements under human rights watch

    21/01/2021
    The European Parliament released a series of motions for resolutions on human [...]
  • Malaysia launches WTO dispute against EU’s renewable fuels directive
  • EU ASEAN to upgrade their relationship, set up palm oil working group
  • Cambodia’s garment manufacturers sue EU over preference withdrawal
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WTO

  • Event invitation: Do we need a WTO climate waiver?

  • WTO Corner: WTO and G7 in quest for ministerial conference agenda

United Kingdom

  • Week in London: Indonesia, 29 pages of CPTPP questions

  • EU risks fresh trade rows over GI status for ‘halloumi’ cheese

  • Week in London: Northern Ireland, Vietnam, EU business worries about trade with UK

  • Podcast: Drowning in red tape? UK business, trade and Brexit

  • Perspectives: Post-Brexit UK trade policy lacks innovation

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