It will be a particularly active week today on the Brussels trade front. EU-UK TCA, Northern Ireland, INTA committee The EU-UK machinery might be getting back into gear amidst noises that London and Brussels are working constructively on a settlement on how to resolve current implementation issues. The European Parliament …

Trade policy will quiet down this week as the Easter week-end beckons in Europe. Borderlex itself will go fully quiet on Friday (2 April) and come back on Tuesday (6 April).

By Chris Horseman and Iana Dreyer. Be prepared for an intense week in trade policy. Over in the United States, new USTR Katherine Tai, who started in her new job last Friday, will be gradually taking over – we might start seeing movement or developments in many critical transatlantic files. …

This week a tenth free trade agreement negotiation round between the EU and Australia continues into its second week. The European Commission will also launch two legal proceedings against the United Kingdom for breaching the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol (see here). The International Trade Committee of the European …

So what is awaiting us this week in trade? Here some items to watch out for. Airbus Boeing tariff relief, (but where is China?) We still have not seen the schedules of the EU China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. They have been promised by the Commission for mid February, then …

Some key meetings and items to look out for in trade policy in Europe this week. By Chris Horseman and Iana Dreyer.

A preview of key trade policy meetings in Brussels, London and Geneva. By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to head WTO The World Trade Organization’s General Council is meeting today (Monday 15 February) to take a final decision on the nomination of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the next director-general of the organisation. The former World Bank executive was the consensus choice among WTO members in a …

By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman. It’s been quite the week-end. The European Commission, on the back of self-inflicted failure to provide for adequate supplies of vaccines went on to impose export restrictions on vaccines to the United Kingdom and dragged Northern Ireland into all this – until it operated …