Malaysia has followed its neighbour Indonesia in taking WTO action against the European Union’s renewable fuel directive, in a fresh challenge to the legitimacy of Brussels’ flagship biofuels programme.
WTO dispute settlement
WTO Corner: EU vs Indonesia, Hong Kong vs US, Costa Rica vs Panama, services
The only thing that is certain in this beginning of the year at the World Trade Organization – a body that is yet awaiting the nomination of its next director-general – is that many members disagree. So they file legal disputes.
WTO Corner: moving disputes online, World Food Programme purchases, director-general
The General Council has run into a third day of meetings in Geneva today. At the time of writing, WTO members were still meeting. Despite the intensity of the session, there is a sense of failure as the organisation has not been able to agree on anything except the budget …
WTO Corner: Last Appellate Body member farewell, Korea steel case appeal
Last woman standing: Appellate Body member Hong Zhao says good-bye China’s Appellate Body member was the last woman standing until yesterday. Hong Zhao, a Chinese scholar, was long a thorn in the eye of the United States. Since the terms of two colleagues expired in early December last year, Ms …
WTO Corner: Hong Kong sues US, fish talks, COVID and US election hiatus
Hong Kong contests US ‘China’ label for its goods exports Hong Kong has filed a dispute against a new United States rule that obliges goods exports from Hong Kong to be labelled as coming from ‘China’. Hong Kong, a WTO member, is a separate customs territory and nominally a different …
EU authorised to hit US $ 4 bn in United States trade
Updated on 13 October 2020 at 18.11 CET. The European Union may retaliate against the United States following damage to Airbus’ sales of aircraft to prospective clients from government subsidies to Boeing. The amount of annual trade that may be covered by EU retaliation is US $ 3.99 billion.
WTO: The definitive end of optimism on the Appellate Body
The United States’s envoy to the World Trade Organization Dennis Shea poured cold water on any hopes – if there were any left – that this administration would enter into negotiations on reforming and restoring the institution’s Appellate Body.
Enforcement regulation trilogue: institutions still wide apart
Views on what should be included in the coming revamp of a trade ‘enforcement regulation’ tabled by the European Commission late last year are still wide apart.
EU-US: Dombrovskis hopes to build on lobster-lighters deal momentum
There is a small hiatus in EU trade policy as the European Commission awaits final confirmation of Valdis Dombrovskis as the next commissioner in charge of trade policy. But the Latvian top commission executive has played his care-taker role in full since late August and taken charge of the EU’s …
WTO Corner: Brussels appeals into void in Russia case, EU steel safeguard goes to court
MPIA state of play EU appeals ‘into void’ in Russia anti-dumping dispute To many, the move will seem highly ironic. The EU is not pleased with a July WTO panel ruling regarding anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate and steel pipes in a case filed by Russia – so it is …
