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Friday, July 10, 2020
It’s been a week full of hoo haa around EU US agriculture trade. The EU put a bit of antidumping into its digital strategy. The European Parliament ratified the EU-UK withdrawal agreement on Wednesday and offered a moving good-bye ceremony to Britons. In London, Union Jack flags are being waved …
By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman. Brexit for real This will be the United Kingdom’s final week as an EU member state. In the UK, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill finally received royal assent last Thursday (23 January), the same day as the agreement was signed by European Council President Charles Michel. …
The target set to China to increase its imports in a series of products by a value of US$ 200 billion in the next two years set in the so-called Phase One agreement between Washington and Beijing clinched last week will lead to China diverting imports and purchases from other …
At a gathering hosted by the largest umbrella group for European business in Monday in Brussels, the EU’s trade commissioner was given a first opportunity to talk about EU-China relations and to debrief on his first official trip to Washington last week. The EU and China are currently intensely working …
Beaming in from Washington into a conference hosted by former trade commissioner Peter Mandelson in London on Thursday, Phil Hogan gave a most down-to-earth assessment of the current trade policy situation in Washington. Hogan’s approach to the United States so far is to seek to avoid further escalation of bilateral …
With the United States failing to deliver changes to Chinese subsidies and state-owned enterprise practices in the small trade ‘deal’ it is about to sign with Beijing, Washington appears keener to cooperate with other countries to address more ‘structural’ issues with the Asian behemoth. The EU and US are also …
This week was mainly about the EU getting back into business mode. The main focus has been on preparing the ground for trade negotiations starting next month with the United Kingdom and managing transatlantic relations. More below. Commissioner Breton toys with idea of a data localisation obligations for business data …
That was a pretty lonely affair for France. The European Parliament’s very last plenary last session in Strasbourg this week was dedicated to one of the most difficult and high-profile trade topics at the moment: transatlantic trade relations. More precisely the topic was the threat of new tariffs from Washington …
It’s been an eventful week on trade – with a deepening WTO crisis, some movement on agriculture, continued uncertainty over the EU Vietnam FTA ratification…. New low in WTO and transatlantic trade relations This week has provided fodder for around-the-clock quotation-chasing media as developments shifted by the day, if not …
United States aims to ‘reset’ transatlantic trade relations ring hollow. The US is moving ahead with further import duties on EU products. It is not interested in an OECD agreement on digital taxation. And it has definitely pulled the plug on the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body. The EU for …
