Trade Archives

As the EU has presented its shiny new economic security package this week, it will now need to square the circle between security and prosperity.

Ahead of a key summit of members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Abu Dhabi at the end of February, the EU hopes for a reform of the organisation’s “dispute settlement mechanism”, a court-like institution paralysed by the USA.

Marcela Cristini, senior economist at the Argentinian Foundation for Economic Investigations in Latin America (FIEL), argued that the new Argentinian government would favour the trade deal between the EU and Mercosur but that the EU's ecological requirements went too far. As …

The ruling from the German constitutional court in Karlsruhe, declaring the transfer of 60 billion Euros in Covid-related debt to the Klima- und Transformationsfond (KTF) unlawful, has cast a shadow of uncertainty over Germany's economic security agenda, argues Tobias Gehrke.

As the negotiations on the EU–US Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium (GSA) falter, the EU should steel itself ahead of the 2024 US elections, write Brandon Bohrn and Etienne Höra.

The EU Commission on Tuesday (19 December) announced that it would keep tariffs on US steel and aluminium suspended until March 2015 with the goal of reaching a deal on green steel and aluminium until then.

Turin's famed gianduiotto, a small, creamy chocolate that melts on the tongue, is at the centre of a battle for European recognition pitting Italian artisans against Swiss giant Lindt.

Negotiators of the European Council and Parliament agreed on Thursday (14 December) after an all-night discussion a compromise deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), including on the most controversial aspects of the inclusion of finance and on the obligation to implement climate plans.

While negotiations for the EU-Mercosur agreement are currently taking place on a daily basis to speed up the conclusion of the additional protocol, more work needs to be done to match our commitments, writes a group of EU lawmakers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva committed to concluding the EU-Mercosur trade agreement in Berlin on Monday (4 December), despite the blowback the deal received from France and Argentina.

Next week's EU-China Summit will not lead to grand changes in both superpowers' fraught relationship, and it is high time the EU starts thinking collectively on pushing back against China's bullying ways, Institut Montaigne's François Godement writes.

Countries’ carbon footprints are determined by what they buy and sell from each other, not just by their own production. So trade policy should play a role in countries’ efforts to decarbonise – alignment of the two is long overdue, write Laurence Tubiana and Richard Baron.

As the EU is struggling to balance its economic and security interests amid US-China tensions, South Korea faces similar challenges in a much more accentuated way, requiring the country to take extraordinary care in devising its economic security strategy.

Brussels on Monday (27 November) gave the final green light for an EU-New Zealand trade deal that, while mutually lowering barriers for both markets, highlights the recent failure of EU-Australia negotiations.

Despite assurances that the EU does not want to decouple its trade from China, Chinese companies operating in Europe say they are facing uncertainty regarding their future, but nevertheless continue to invest in the bloc.

The Spanish Presidency of the EU Council is asking member states to compromise on climate and civil liability provisions in exchange for a carve-out of finance from the proposed EU corporate accountability rules, amid growing calls to include the sector under mandatory due diligence checks.

The Spanish Presidency of the EU Council is leaning towards the exclusion of the financial sector from the EU corporate accountability rules, which are currently under inter-institutional negotiations, according to an internal document seen by Euractiv.

As representatives of the European Parliament and EU countries negotiate the details of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in Brussels, visiting Guatemalan human rights activist Bernardo Caal Xol has urged them to implement the directive, which would force European companies to behave more responsibly.

After the surprise failure of the year-long negotiations between the EU and Australia for a free-trade agreement, representatives of Germany’s export-oriented industries strongly criticised the disproportionate influence of agricultural interests on trade deals.

US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, speaking in Berlin on Tuesday (31 October), defended the Inflation Reduction Act against criticism from the EU, calling upon European countries to adopt similar policies.

While the EU has so far failed to take appropriate action against the most invasive forms of spyware, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) could offer a crucial opportunity for the EU to rein in the rampant human rights …

Meeting at the margins of the G7 meeting in Osaka on Sunday (29 October), EU and Australian trade representatives failed to conclude negotiations on a free trade agreement due to persistent disagreements on agricultural market access. "Unfortunately, we have not been …

China, the world's top graphite producer, on Friday (20 October) announced new curbs on exports of certain types of graphite, key to making batteries for electric vehicles, in its latest move to control supplies of critical minerals in response to challenges over its manufacturing dominance.

Prospects dimmed on Thursday (19 October) for agreements ending long-running disputes between the United States and European Union over Trump-era tariffs and US green subsidies after negotiators failed to make any breakthroughs before a White House summit.