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.
European Commission executive vice president Valdis Dombrovskis said his services will be “moving forward” with its anti-subsidy investigation into electric vehicles from China, despite there still being no official announcement in the bloc’s statute book. Dombrovskis expressed hopes that China would ease exports of critical minerals gallium and germanium to …
The European Commission is asking member states to “conduct collective risk assessments” in the areas of advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence, quantum and biotechnologies by the end of 2023. The recommendation, which, as its name indicates is not a piece of hard law, is the first attempt at rolling out …
This week in Brussels began with the EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue in Beijing and ended with a meeting yesterday afternoon (28 September) of the Joint Coordination Platform which discussed how Ukraine was going to control exports of grain into the EU – with no visible outcome at …
Brazil’s envoy to the European Union said that an agreement on the EU-Mercosur trade deal can be reached “if there is flexibility from both sides and real dialogue on the issues of concern”.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng called on the European Union to “exercise restraint” in implementing the bloc’s unilateral trade and environment measures. The two sides established working groups on export controls, WTO reform and cosmetics trade.
The week in Brussels has been dominated by the spat over imports of grain from Ukraine. But much more happened…
Ukraine has circulated its request for consultations with EU member states Hungary, Poland and Slovakia with the dispute settlement body in Geneva in relation to these countries’ unilateral import bans.
Shameful. And dangerous. And this is not about a few tonnes of wheat. This is dangerous for the European Union as a polity. This is dangerous for its standing as a global trading power.
Parliamentarians in the European Parliament’s international trade committee expressed their concern yesterday (19 September) at the European Commission for using the EU’s new Enforcement Regulation against Indonesia in the context of Jakarta’s ban on nickel exports.
