News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, June 2, 2023
The EU and Canada finalised negotiations towards a mutual recognition agreement of professional qualifications for architects. It took them five years to fulfil the pledge included in the text of their free trade agreement CETA, which has been in force provisionally since September 2017.
This article looks into the market access and business rule dimension of the EU New Zealand free trade agreement – except subsidies, SOEs, competition and intellectual property, which will receive separate attention. The analysis is provided by Chris Horseman and Iana Dreyer based on the draft treaty text recently published …
The European Union and Canada have started negotiating a mutual recognition agreement on the professional qualifications of architects. The proposed deal is part of CETA, the EU-Canada trade accord that has been in force provisionally since 2017.
“Human mobility constitutes services trade in its own right, while also enabling trade in goods and other services,” reads a thought-piece on the impact of COVID-19 travel restrictions on international trade put together by the secretariat of the World Trade Organization.
The WTO’s regular global trade forecast released today deserves special attention as it tries to grapple with the as yet hard-to-quantify impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global economic growth and on trade. Trade is always disproportionately negatively affected by economic shocks compared to global output. And this time is …
All good things happen on a Friday afternoon when everyone wants to head off into the week-end: the EU just released its offer to the United States towards the conformity assessment agreement they are currently negotiating. If you were wondering what to read over the week-end, here it is! High …
Britain will shortly be in a position to sign agreements confirming the rollover of six international trade deals, and is close to finalising texts on five others, according to a statement issued Friday by UK Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay. However, this would still leave the UK some way away from …
The UK’s bid to establish an autonomous schedule of services in the World Trade Organization after Brexit has been dealt a blow as three WTO members objected to Britain’s draft document. Russia, Taiwan and Costa Rica all submitted written objections to the UK’s proposed schedule of commitments under the General …
Globalisation and robotics will eventually improve the world, but they are creating competition for services jobs that is coming quickly and in ways that will seem very unfair, Richard Baldwin tells Borderlex. Workers and governments must prepare for the advance of ‘globotics’.
The UK has submitted its draft schedule of commitments on services to the World Trade Organization, as it continues its bid to have a complete set of schedules in place by the time it leaves the EU and becomes an autonomous WTO member. According to UK Trade Secretary Liam Fox, …
