Part Two of the recent Turkey-EU trade dispute settlement saga around pharmaceuticals and steel is ending today with a panel report that goes easy on Brussels in its handling of its 2018 steel safeguard measure. Even if the panel did not give the EU a clean slate in the way …
Trade defence
Week in Brussels: Indian, Indonesian steel subsidies; Nordic CEE deforestation regulation qualms
Here some interesting “other news” in trade policy in Brussels this week. By Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer.
Week in Brussels: Russia WTO dispute now on, steel safeguard revision, aluminium
Borderlex will be in recess as of tomorrow (22 December) for about a fortnight due to the festive season. So we are fast-forwarding our usual Friday Week in Brussels column for you…
Week in Brussels: Angola, Ghana, ECT, Chinese subsidies in steel wind towers and glass fiber
That was a big week in EU policy. There was an intense European Parliament plenary session during which legislation that will affect trade policy and transatlantic or EU China relations, namely the Digital Markets and Digital Services act as well as the International Procurement Instrument. But there have been other …
Week in Brussels: EU Vietnam civil society meet, Russian birch plywood, Euromed impact
This week’s trade minister meeting in Brussels was a rather grumpy family gathering ahead of ‘decision time’ for small but strategic trade agreements with Chile (lithium anyone?), New Zealand and Australia. Here are some other interesting developments. EU and Vietnam hold their first FTA civil society group meetings The first …
Week in Brussels: MEPs on MC12, sustainability, new AD duties, Australia
WTO issues, sustainability, trade defence have dominated the picture in trade policy in Brussels this week. By Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer.
Birch plywood anti-dumping case: No mercy for small importers and users
To save the profits of seven producers of plywood in two or three European Union countries. Or to preserve or the income – in some cases ensure the survival of – 133 mainly SMEs across 25 countries. This choice was given to the European Commission. And the Commission is expected …
Commission offers industrialists reprieve over aluminium anti-dumping duties
The European Commission carved out a long list of products from a final decision on anti-dumping duties for aluminium flat-rolled products originating in China.
Week in Brussels : Sri Lanka GSP+, trade and climate summit plans, steel trade defence
A selected set of notable developments in EU trade policy by Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer.
EU extends China aluminium foil AD duties to Thailand, to suspend flat-rolled product duties
The move comes as the EU executive has practically decided to suspend import duties on another aluminium product: flat-rolled items from China.