News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
The countdown to likely countervailing duties on imports of electric vehicles from China has officially begun. The anti-subsidy investigation into imports of cars announced mid-September by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was published this morning in the European Union’s statute book.
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.
By Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer. The freshly released European Commission annual report on trade defence measures in 2022 confirms an EU shift to tracking circumvention of existing measures instead of increasing the number of anti-dumping, anti-subsidy or safeguard measures.
This week officially marked the “rentrée”, when (most) EU officials are back at the desks and the EU institutions become fully operational. And it will be a busy autumn – check out our preview of the EU legislative and trade negotiation agenda for the next few months. This week some …
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 …
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.
This week it became clear that the European Commission is trying to wrap up a range of trade policy files before the EU institutions wind down for elections in the spring 2024. Another deadline is looming with the United States too over a deal on critical raw materials and on …
The European Commission will not stop applying its import safeguard on steel just this year, despite having investigated the matter. Instead, the overall volume that is allowed into the EU market under the steel safeguard will increase by 4% next month – and a slew of country-specific quotas for developing …
So the media were alerted last night. The move came – seemingly – out of the blue: the European Commission is getting ready to launch an anti-dumping case against electric vehicles imported from China. Boom! Scoop! The digestive systems of some media are simple: they spew out very quickly what …
