Steel quota deal for EU trade partners means more pain for China
China is set to face tougher restrictions on its steel exports to Europe under a new formula set out by the EU Commission.
EU trade
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EU trade chief sets October deadline to resolve China deficit row
After months of rhetorical disputes and the threat of new trade defence measures, top EU and Chinese trade officials have set themselves an October deadline to resolve their disputes.
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EU’s Šefčovič going into China trade talks hobbled by European leaders’ flip-flopping
Monday’s meeting between Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao and EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels has been billed by EU officials as a make-or-break event for the future of Europe’s trade with the manufacturing superpower.
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European firms gain access to African tax-havens, as EU seals first-ever offshore trade pact
EU’s first-ever services trade deal with African states will give European firms near-unfettered access to Mauritius and Seychelles’ offshore financial hubs.
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Šefčovič’s challenge: getting China to blink on trade
The EU wants to reduce its trade deficit with China – but Beijing insists there is no problem. Bridging that gap is the challenge facing EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič.
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EU-China trade war edges closer as Brussels lines up emergency import safeguards
The EU Commission is now aiming a series of blows at China’s trade surplus – pulling out the ‘overcapacity instrument’ instrument from its armoury, which would cap imports of certain Chinese products to the EU.
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China threatens retaliation over new EU tool to curb Chinese ‘overcapacity’
Impose a so-called ‘overcapacity instrument’ aimed at reducing Chinese exports and we will hit back with “resolute countermeasures”, Beijing has warned the EU.
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Trump in China trade deals leave Brussels asking if Europe is being taken seriously by Beijing
The EU’s relations with China are ‘complex’ and marked by ‘systemic rivalry’, the EU’s ambassador to China conceded on Friday.
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Farm animals will suffer in EU-Latin America deal, public warned
The EU-Mercosur deal spoke of “alignment of production standards,” but animal welfare groups said it risked promoting intensive animal farming in Latin America.
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Israel responsible for deadliest era for journalists since 1992
Israel has been engaged in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists ever-documented since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based non-profit.
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Spain’s Sanchez uses China trip to urge Beijing to ‘open up’ to end trade row
Despite being one of China’s main economic allies in Europe, Spain’s prime minister has urged Beijing to take steps to reduce its ‘unsustainable’ trade deficit with the EU.
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EU businesses warn China’s new supply chain law puts firms on collision course with bloc’s rules
Beijing’s new rules cover any commercial decisions that could be seen as affecting China’s supply security, including decisions to stop supplying Chinese customers or to exit China-related supply chains.
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Gunboat trade policy: how Trump’s tariffs have ended ‘free-trade’ orthodoxy
Despite its insistence that it supports ‘rules-based trade’, the EU has accepted president Donald Trump’s tariffs. And its own trade agenda is more complicated than just free trade.
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MEPs back US trade pact, but add safeguards as pressure builds for quick deal
MEPs have inserted a series of safeguards into the EU-US trade tariff deal that will require Washington’s approval, as US urges the EU to sign it off.
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THIS WEEK: EU turns to Africa, as Middle East burnsEU will sign defence partnership with Ghana, after a series of coups reduced European power in west Africa.
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Beef and car duties on the line, as von der Leyen hopes for Australia trade pact
Beef quotas and the scrapping of an Australian tax on luxury cars are the main issues to be resolved by officials.
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MEPs greenlight US trade pact after steel promises
MEPs expect to take a final plenary vote on a hotly contested EU-US trade deal in Strasbourg next Thursday.
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A shared market for services? EU leaders’ competitiveness summit blind spot
In Europe, goods and people mostly move freely — but services are still largely stuck behind a web of national bureaucracy. We are, in effect, sanctioning our own economies, warns MEP Barry Andrews.
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MEPs approve ‘safeguards’ to halt cheap Mercosur imports if EU farmers suffer
MEPs say the so-called ‘safeguards’ regulation will ensure European farmers are not put out of business by cheap imports from South America.
