News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Preventing a subsidies war, export restrictions, non-economic objectives, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and reducing critical dependencies have all been in the spotlight for international think tanks. Here are some highlights from the last fortnight, where heavy-hitters have chimed into today’s existential debates on the future of the trading system.
Ukraine’s first vice prime minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said that Kyiv will launch a legal case at the WTO against the three EU countries Poland, Hungary and Slovakia that had reintroduced import bans on agriculture products from Ukraine. France and Germany condemned the move by the three countries.
Borderlex hosted a panel discussion at the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum in Geneva on ‘How trade policy can make (climate) migration work’. Below you will find some key take-aways from this session, including quickly actionable policy recommendations. ***
Impressions of four days of meetings at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. By Iana Dreyer, and Rob Francis for the last section.
Preview of a packed week ahead in trade in the EU, the UK and at the WTO in Geneva. By Rob Francis and Chris Horseman.
The EU import safeguard on grains from Ukraine imposed last April after five Central European countries arm-twisted the commission into saving the customs union and single market from their unilateral import bans is now officially dead. But it lives on in the form of Ukraine being obliged to manage its …
WTO member countries must align their domestic policies with their trade policy if the benefits of globalisation are to be fully realised – and accepted by the population. This was the core message from academic and former senior trade official Arancha González in a wide-ranging interview with Borderlex at the …
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?
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that her services will launch an anti-subsidies investigation into electric vehicles coming from China.
