Susan Schwab, chair of the board of directors of the National Foreign Trade Council and former United States Trade Representative, sat down with Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer in Washington to discuss US-China and EU US relations.
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EU – US post-Brexit agriculture quota reallocation deal edges closer to implementation
USTR Katherine’s Tai’s stopover in Brussels this week resulted not only in the relaunch of the TTC process, but also in the signature of a long-sought deal to partially reallocate the division of EU tariff rate quotas between the United Kingdom and the EU27 – almost two years after the …
US, EU set TTC, year’s steel talks rolling
The EU and United States have agreed to accelerate work on the various bilateral trade initiatives linked to sustainability in advance of the next ministerial meeting of the transatlantic Trade and Technology Council to be held before the summer in Sweden. After meeting US trade representative Katherine Tai on her …
US memo reignites Spanish olives row with EU
The European Commission has accused the United States of “blatant protectionism” following Washington’s failure to abide by the WTO panel report concerning Spanish olives following a US department of commerce decision in late 2022.
Brussels will seek further access for its firms to US subsidy scheme
The European Union succeeded in wringing out partial concessions related to the United States’ plan to introduce tax credits for electric commercial vehicles, following guidance released by Washington late last week. But Brussels remains concerned about other elements of Washington’s planned rollout of tax credits for other electric vehicles and …
Week in Brussels: Green industrial policy, Eastern and Southern Africa, GSP, deforestation
This is the last Week in Brussels column of the year 2022. The column will resume in January. The latest developments in EU trade policy brought to you by Rob Francis (mostly) and Iana Dreyer (some of it). A happy festive season to our readers!
Perspectives: US has abandoned multilateralism, EU must not follow
Since President Trump’s election in 2016 there has been a concerted effort from other countries to save the WTO from the US moving against the fundamentals of the global trading system. As 2022 ends it is clear that these efforts have been only partially successful – to say the least. …
WTO panel rules US Section 232 steel, aluminium tariffs illegal
Panellists in the dispute settlement cases brought by China, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey in an almost coordinated fashion after 2018 could no longer delay the publication of perhaps the politically most salient case in the World Trade Organization’s twenty-seven year history: the United States Section 232 steel and aluminium tariffs. …
Week in Brussels: TTC follow-up, Mercosur woes, essentialising labour and environment in FTAs
It’s been a very busy week, starting with a transatlantic TTC meeting, continuing with the Australian trade minister coming to Brussels, and a long-awaited trade deal with Chile finally announced today. There’s more that happened. Selection below.
Blog: That “tangible” TTC outcome
A bit of sarcasm can’t do any harm, right?
