News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
The countdown to likely countervailing duties on imports of electric vehicles from China has officially begun. The anti-subsidy investigation into imports of cars announced mid-September by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was published this morning in the European Union’s statute book.
European Commission executive vice president Valdis Dombrovskis said his services will be “moving forward” with its anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicles from China, despite there still being no official announcement in the bloc’s statute book. Dombrovskis expressed hopes that China would ease exports of critical minerals gallium and germanium to …
This week in Brussels began with the EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue in Beijing and ended with a meeting yesterday afternoon (28 September) of the Joint Coordination Platform which discussed how Ukraine was going to control exports of grain into the EU – with no visible outcome at …
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng called on the European Union to “exercise restraint” in implementing the bloc’s unilateral trade and environment measures. The two sides established working groups on export controls, WTO reform and cosmetics trade.
Parliamentarians in the European Parliament’s international trade committee expressed their concern yesterday (19 September) at the European Commission for using the EU’s new Enforcement Regulation against Indonesia in the context of Jakarta’s ban on nickel exports.
The highlight of this week in Brussels – indeed, one of the highlights of the political calendar – was the annual State of the Union speech given by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday (13 September). Borderlex covered von der Leyen’s core announcement, that of an anti-subsidy …
Trade war, no trade war or war of the brands? What’s really at stake with the coming new anti-subsidy investigation of the EU into Chinese electric vehicles imported into the EU?
The first full week of the Brussels rentrée saw the EU institutions gradually come back to life. On Wednesday the European Commission published its annual trade defence report, and one of Brussels’ leading think tanks hosted an array of political figures and academics at its signature autumn event. For all …
Welcome back to Borderlex after its small team took a much needed summer break ahead of a packed autumn of trade news to expect in Brussels, London and at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. The most notable news thus far in this scorching-hot European summer is the reignition of …
This week was dominated by the summit in Brussels between the EU, Latin America, and the Caribbean countries. Read our takeaway from the high-level powwow here. On Thursday (20 July) EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis met with US trade representative Katherine Tai to try and find a breakthrough in talks …
