EU-Philippines free-trade pact joins Brussels’ growing ‘harvest’ of Asia deals
An EU-Philippines pact is the latest trade deal to be ‘harvested’, and Thailand and Malaysia are likely to be next.
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Beijing tells EU to weaken ‘Made in Europe’ industrial bill ahead of October showdown
Beijing and Brussels have made demands and counter-demands as talks on their myriad trade disputes hot up. But they could be derailed by a US-China summit in Washington next week.
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Details emerge on Canada’s ‘associate membership’ EU offer, as Brexit UK left looking on
EUobserver understands that Ursula von der Leyen did not consult EU governments before making the offer to Canada and there is anxiety in some EU capitals that cosying up to Mark Carney could inflame Donald Trump into re-starting his tariff war with Europe.
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Von der Leyen’s State of the Union likely to tiptoe around China ahead of trade showdown
The EU’s competitiveness problems and its trade dispute with China have not gone away, but Ursula von der Leyen won’t pile on the criticism of Beijing at Wednesday’s State of the Union address, as trade talks enter the crunch stage.
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EU plans new ‘diversification’ rules to cut dependence on China
The EU’s top trade official says China must demonstrate progress towards reducing its trade surplus with the bloc, but conceded that talks have made little progress since June.
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EU says Trump’s tariffs barely touch European companies — US importers foot the bill
EU companies have largely escaped any downfall from Trump’s tariffs. “The people who pay US tariffs are the importers,” said one EU official.
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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.
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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.