From the grapevine today as this week is gearing up to be decisive for some EU trade files. New trade defence methodology trilogue The three Brussels institutions are preparing to meet tomorrow – Tuesday 12 September – for a trilogue session on the new trade defence methodology that …
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Insight – Australia WTO paper dispute: impact on new EU antidumping methodology
The EU Commission has been eyeing Australia’s way of handling Chinese imports in antidumping cases as a possible alternative to no longer treating China as a non market economy. Now a WTO dispute brought by Indonesia against Australia could help determine if that envisaged path is WTO compliant. By Stéphanie …
EU-China trade defence instrument conversation heating up
The EU and China are overtly wrangling over how to handle trade defence cases under World Trade Organization rules. The WTO released working documents today that have been circulating among members of the body’s working group on rules that showcase how intense the disagreements currently run in the organisation over subsidy …
Borderlex on US radio programme ‘Wake’ on EU Japan trade deal
Borderlex’s editor Iana Dreyer on Talk Media News radio programme Wake dissecting the EU Japan Free Trade Agreement alongside the Peterson Institute’s Caroline Freund and Brooking’s Joshua Meltzer. Listen HERE.
Blog: Animal welfare group sees opportunity in EU Japan trade agreement
Praise for any aspect of an EU free trade agreements is sparse in the NGO world. But among the flood of overall predictable press statements from business circles and anti trade campaign groups we have received on the EU Japan free trade pact concluded ‘politically’ in Brussels on Thursday (6 July 2017), one stands …
Deep dive: The beef in the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
A first piece of commentary on the deal that was agreed today in Brussels.
Analysis: EU Japan trade deal leaves sensitive topics for further negotiation
The EU and Japan are now ready to announce they have a deal on a free trade pact both sides have been negotiating for four years. The announcement will be made official at the EU Japan summit on Thursday (6 July 2017) in Brussels. But a lot of work remains to be …
EU and Japan to state support for global free trade, WTO
The EU and Japan are expected to announce they have concluded four-year-old free trade negotiations at a summit in Brussels attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (6 June 2017) in Brussels. They also plan to make a bigger point about free trade. The draft joint declaration, which …
Blog: EU Japan free trade negotiation update
Updated on 26 June 2017 13:11 CET European and Japanese negotiators have worked the whole week-end in Tokyo to try and clinch what they call a “broad agreement”, in other words the general outline of a free trade agreement the technicalities of which would be left for negotiators to finalise …
EU Japan FTA : some capitals not ready for mandate release nor July conclusion
EU member states are generally open to the idea of signing on a to a ‘political’ conclusion of the four-year old free trade agreement negotiations with Japan in early July. But there are misgivings, minutes of a trade policy committee meeting seen by Borderlex reveal. Member states are also not yet ready to release …
