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Thursday, October 19, 2017
The latest Appellate Body report confirms that it has jurisdiction over expired measures when these are annulled or lapse during a dispute settlement proceeding in the World Trade Organization. It also rebuffs once more the EU for not properly disclosing information to the foreign companies it investigates in trade defence …
The WTO’s Appellate Body issued a report that overturned a November 2016 ruling regarding a case Brussels brought against Washington on subsidies in favour of the the aerospace giant Boeing. The ruling comes at a critical time for the future of the Appellate Body in Geneva. At this very …
When the EU decided not to renew ‘countervailing duties’ on imports of polyethylene telephtalate from Pakistan in September 2015 that had been in place for a decade, the South Asian government initially considered withdrawing a complaint it had filed a few months earlier against these measures in the WTO. …
The policy world is gradually flocking back to Brussels. Trade and investment will be among the most packed agendas in an autumn overshadowed by the coming German general election. Below are the key policy files to watch. Trade defence & its reform The European Parliament, the Commission …
On Thursday (28 July 2017), EU member states delegates examined a Commission proposal to slash significantly existing antidumping duties on biodiesel from Argentina but failed to endorse it. The move came as the EU seeks to comply with a September 2016 WTO appellate body report that ruled the EU’s …
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 …
There’s been a frenzy of EU trade related activity this week. It looks like it’s a big rush before the summer lull. Here a curation of what we found interesting. EU and WTO round-up The EU is pressing its fellow WTO members on fisheries subsidies ahead of the Buenos Aires …
The Foreign Trade Association, the EU’s main retailing and light industry organisation, released a new position paper on EU plans to adapt its trade defence methodology as it moves to do away with ‘non market economy’ status for countries like China. The organisation calls on the European Parliament to review its demands. The move came …
Diplomats at the G20 summit in Hamburg hosted by Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to cobble together a compromise text promising not to resort to trade protectionism. Whether their joint statement will eliminate the threat of trade wars or, possibly, the tearing apart of the World Trade Organization, remains to be …
The European Commission is following through on a complaint filed by the Confederation of European Paper Industries at the end of April 2017 regarding a Turkish import licensing obligation on office paper. The EU’s executive body will now launch a formal investigation into the case as part of its rarely used …
