News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The United Kingdom is set to exempt certain United States biodiesel products from the countervailing duties to which they have been subject since 2009. In a move which will please US biofuel exporters, the Trade Remedies Authority announced on Wednesday (15 December) that it is proposing to drop countervailing duties …
The British government is launching a consultation on a proposal to make businesses take more responsibility for ensuring that they do not trade products which contribute to deforestation.
The dreaded year 2022 is round the corner already for the UK border – EU exporters will need to be prepared. The UK continues to follow what the EU does – yet another example is Uzbekistan’s GSP status upgrade. And there is a form of truce on fishing licences with …
The UK is to defer the introduction of controls on agri-food imports into the country by up to a further nine months, as businesses and border officials alike struggle to adapt to the realities of life outside the EU single market. Exporters from the EU will not have to supply …
This week shows that adapting to new post Brexit trade realities is proving quite a challenge for the United Kingdom…. Rumours abound of delays to 1 October introduction of UK SPS checks
London has announced a major review of the United Kingdom’s Generalised System of Preferences with the aim of simplifying access to its domestic market for qualifying low-income countries.
The High Court in London is expected to rule this autumn on a judicial review which has been filed against the government by a British sugar processor. The ruling could have far-reaching implications for UK trade policy. Here’s why.
It’s an eventful week here in the United Kingdom, with the formal launch of digital trade talks with Singapore, a trade war averted over Northern Ireland, and the DIT overruling the Trade Remedies Authority over steel import safeguards. But there’s even more. It’s about digital, state aid, the Gulf and …
The United Kingdom government made a last-minute move to retain safeguard measures on five of the nine categories of steel products which had been slated for removal as from 1 July. The intervention came in the form of a ‘public notice’ issued late on Wednesday (30 June). It directly overrules …
The European Union and the United Kingdom remain at loggerheads over meat shippings from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
