After nearly twenty months of negotiations, the push for a free trade agreement between the UK and India is moving towards its endgame. But it has not got there just yet.
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Comment: As WTO panels slap down Trump-era tariffs, trumpian trade policy prevails
The summer 2023 capped off half a decade of a World Trade Organization wrangling with the rule-book’s national security exception. The process has landed the global trading order in a very uncomfortable place. It’s hard to see a way out unless the system accepts Washington’s zero-sum terms.
UK trade update: An August of British pragmatism
A new trend of prioritising economic imperatives over strict adherence to Brexit principles of regulatory non-alignment is starting to become evident in UK government circles. Two developments in August underline how the UK orthodoxy is gradually shifting.
THINK TANK: IFD, security exceptions, CPTPP, US investment restrictions, EU friend-shoring
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up in August thus far. The Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hinrich Foundation have been focusing on WTO issues, while the European Council on Foreign relations focuses on the EU’s version of ‘friend-shoring’.
EU, Indonesia reignite biodiesel trade squabbles
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 …
Week in Brussels: LatAm and EU parliamentarians talk Mercosur, Chips Act finalised
This was the last week before the EU institutions slow down during the August break. Slow down, not shut down. After all, with a full-scale war on the bloc’s doorstep, the EU can ill-afford to close its doors for the duration of the summer break.
Week in London: Lords on Windsor Framework, UK-Taiwan
The latest in trade policy from London.
WTO to launch informal talks on disciplines for industrial subsidies
WTO ambassadors are to hold an informal ‘retreat’ in September to discuss whether the organisation should initiate multilateral negotiations to control subsidies to strategically important industries.
Ukraine import safeguard: further extension discussed as Baltics vie for port business
EU agriculture commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski announced that European Commission will conduct an analysis in August before deciding whether to extend the current EU safeguard related to the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Borderlex panel @ WTO Public Forum: Climate migration and trade
How trade policy can make (climate) migration work When: Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 15:15-16:30 Where: World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Room A
