News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, March 27, 2023
The EU and United States have agreed to accelerate work on the various bilateral trade initiatives linked to sustainability in advance of the next ministerial meeting of the transatlantic Trade and Technology Council to be held before the summer in Sweden. After meeting US trade representative Katherine Tai on her …
The European Commission has accused the United States of “blatant protectionism” following Washington’s failure to abide by the WTO panel report concerning Spanish olives following a US department of commerce decision in late 2022.
The European Union succeeded in wringing out partial concessions related to the United States’ plan to introduce tax credits for electric commercial vehicles, following guidance released by Washington late last week. But Brussels remains concerned about other elements of Washington’s planned rollout of tax credits for other electric vehicles and …
This is the last Week in Brussels column of the year 2022. The column will resume in January. The latest developments in EU trade policy brought to you by Rob Francis (mostly) and Iana Dreyer (some of it). A happy festive season to our readers!
Since President Trump’s election in 2016 there has been a concerted effort from other countries to save the WTO from the US moving against the fundamentals of the global trading system. As 2022 ends it is clear that these efforts have been only partially successful – to say the least. …
Panellists in the dispute settlement cases brought by China, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey in an almost coordinated fashion after 2018 could no longer delay the publication of perhaps the politically most salient case in the World Trade Organization’s twenty-seven year history: the United States Section 232 steel and aluminium tariffs. …
It’s been a very busy week, starting with a transatlantic TTC meeting, continuing with the Australian trade minister coming to Brussels, and a long-awaited trade deal with Chile finally announced today. There’s more that happened. Selection below.
A bit of sarcasm can’t do any harm, right?
The amount of energy going into the EU US Trade and Technology Council in the Brussels bubble is astounding. It’s at times as if nothing else counted: everyone is obsessed with it. Will the TTC have delivered more on what happened outside its formal framework than within?
The trade ministers of the European Union are converging on Brussels on Friday (25 November) for their bi-annual formal meeting. Tomorrow’s gathering will deliver very little in terms of formal decisions, but it might help bring a few ongoing trade files forward.
