Commission will table a TRQ system to replace its steel safeguard on Tuesday. Industry backs the move and wants an out-of-quota 50% tariff. Also - it wants it all done and dusted by the end of the year! More here by me for @borderlex.net borderlex.net/2025/10/01/e...

EU trade commissioner says the EU could conclude trade negotiations with Malaysia, Thailand, and Philippines "in the next year". Could be a bumper year with India, plus already concluded talks with Mercosur, Mexico, and Indonesia still to be ratified

Indonesia is set to lose its trade preferences with both the EU and UK - it may get a soft landing as long as the trade agreement with the EU enters into force before 1 January 2027. Exciting times borderlex.net/2025/09/30/e...

EU trade chief Sefcovic, speaking at the Atlantic Council event today, says the EU and US are "very soon going to propose the post 2026 safeguard measures" on steel, working with tariff-rate quotas, to deal with "global overcapacity"

Report from the @EP_Trade delegation visit to Brazil in July highlights the strong support within Brazil for ratifying the EU-Mercosur agreement as well as the need to counter Chinese influence in the region www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Study commissioned by European Parliament says EU should explore "the feasibility of concluding a free trade agreement, instead of a bilateral investment agreement, with Taiwan". If that fails, EU and Taiwan should both join CPTPP www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...

The EU took the unusual step of appealing "into the void" a WTO panel verdict on its countervailing duties on Indonesian biodiesel - Brussels took the move out of frustration that Indonesia refused to involve the MPIA in any appeal process. More here borderlex.net/2025/09/28/e...

#EU and #India trying to find a date for the third Trade and Technology Council ministerial meeting. #Trade #negotiations remain the priority. Next trade negotiation round will take place in early October. @robfranciseu.bsky.social reports: borderlex.net/2025/09/25/e...

EU obviously has nothing to worry about here because it’s agreed with the US that any future tariffs will be capped at 15%….right?

Our now weekly piece on how the EU-India trade talks are proving really, really difficult, despite the insistence expressed by the political leaders to get it done by the end of the year borderlex.net/2025/09/25/e...

For WTO wonks - The European Commission has now given up trying to justify the deal with the US as being compatible with article 24. “It isn’t credible that we can turn this into an FTA” Sabine Weyand said today. This is a change from what they were saying before

Congrats (if that's the appropriate term!) to Bernd Lange who has been appointed rapporteur on the 2 commission proposals implementing the EU-US joint statement. This could be quite a ride.

EU and Australia still far apart in trade talks. The commission's Sabine Weyand says there are "unrealistic expectations from Australia" concerning their market access demands for sensitive ag products. No change there then.

EU and India failed to finalise any chapters during the most recent of trade talks earlier this month. Explains why the EU trade commissioner was looking so glum last week circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/092...

EU institutions nearing agreements on investment screening and (gasp!) GSP by the end of the year, according to two MEPs who should know borderlex.net/2025/09/24/e...

EU member states could approve the new trade arrangements with Ukraine "in a matter of days or at most weeks" said Elisabetta Siracusa from the commission's agriculture directorate. EU countries bordering Ukraine are not happy with the increased agrifood quotas.

Everything you wanted to know about the EU-Indonesia agreement. The longest piece I've written for Borderlex, so there's a lot there! borderlex.net/2025/09/23/e...

Computer says no! EU deforestation regulation to be delayed by one year - once again - due to "serious capaicity concerns regarding the IT system given projected load" the commission said today

Borderlex interviewed EU ambassador to the WTO João Aguiar Machado on the state of world trade, EU-US deal, e-commerce, dispute settlement, industrial subsidies, the fish agreement... and it's IN FRONT OF THE PAYWALL! :) borderlex.net/2025/09/22/i...

Hello, it’s been a while. Wanted to do a quick update on the EU Customs Reform and particularly e-commerce, where things are not looking so good. /1

European Commission says it is still planning to table a proposal on CBAM (extending scope to downstream products, preventing circumvention, and support for EU exports) by end of the year.

This week in EU trade policy & WTO: 👉🏼 EU 🇪🇺to clinch free trade agreement w Indonesia 🇮🇩 👉🏼 MEPs to discuss current EU trade files in committee 👉🏼 At @wto.org in Geneva work resumes on reforming the institution By @robfranciseu.bsky.social & @chrishorseman.bsky.social borderlex.net/2025/09/22/w...

This week in EU trade policy news you may have missed: 📌Slovakia opposes Ukraine deal 📌Council prepares Moldova talks 📌Official calls for swift agreement on investment screening 📌China export control pain for business 📌Thai negotiator says ลาก่อน borderlex.net/2025/09/19/w...

WTO DG Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says trade on "Most Favoured Nation" rules aka 'WTO rules' has decreased from 80% to 72%. Still quite a lot though.

EU must protect itself from being flooded with imports of [checks notes] Moldovan plums www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

UK losing ground in the battle for "who's got the best US trade deal". Those 0% metals quotas are not materialising. More by Borderlex's @chrishorseman.bsky.social below borderlex.net/2025/09/18/u...

European Commission's point person on investment screening Damien Levie calls on member states to invest more in economic security. "If they could invest 1% of [planned defence spending] in economic security...that would be great." Notes lack of resources in some MS (h/t Bruegel)

In unsurprising news, Slovakia has come out against the revised quotas agreed between the EU and Ukraine on agriculture trade. I wonder if the Slovak commissioner @marossefcovic.bsky.social can pull any strings? data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

Yeah, Politico ballsed up the names of not one but two football teams yesterday, one of which is in the city where they publish 🤦🏻‍♂️

The European Commission presented a brand new shiny India strategy today - but the trade talks with New Delhi are proving a tough nut to crack. Latest by us borderlex.net/2025/09/17/e...

Commission proposes suspension of preferential trade with Israel. Now the ball is in the council camp to approve the measure - but there doesn't seem to be a majority to support it quite yet. More by me below borderlex.net/2025/09/17/c...

EU trade commissioner @MarosSefcovic said he "hoped for more progress last week" during his trip to India to give a push to the trade talks. Both sides still aim for an agreement by the end of the year in time for a summit early 2026. But it's perhaps not so easy as all that.

Someone should tell the commission there are 5 days in a working week and you don't have to do everything on Wednesdays

Goodbye to #de #minimus - the €150 ceiling on zero #duty textile and clothing packages entering the EU. The move has been backed by the #EU’s leading textile and clothing federations. @robfranciseu.bsky.social reports… borderlex.net/2025/09/16/e...

🚨European Commission to publish tomorrow proposal to suspend the trade provisions in the EU-Israel association agreement. Will also publish an EU-India strategy tomorrow.

80 civil society groups call on EU and UK to end all trade - including goods and services - with the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem borderlex.net/2025/09/15/c...

The commission will publish its proposal to suspend the trade parts of the EU-Israel association agreement "sooner, rather than later", according to EC spokesperson Paula Pinho

Return to #rules-based order “increasingly unlikely" says #EU report, and @wto.org and the @un.org are “under stress”. @robfranciseu.bsky.social reports on the #EU's plans to build #resilience. borderlex.net/2025/09/12/w...

EU trade commissioner says the EU and India are on track to meet a year-end deadline to conclude trade negotiations. "Talks are ongoing... given the political will on both sides, I think we are set to meet the deadline" says @marossefcovic.bsky.social

This week in EU trade policy news you may have missed: 📌MEPs back CBAM simplification + Norway backs scope increase 📌Commission holds off from filing WTO case on China pork duties 📌Rules-based global order is over, says commission borderlex.net/2025/09/12/w...

Finally some good news for the WTO: the fish subsidies pact will enter into force next week! The bad news: it'll lapse unless the second part of the pact is not agreed in 4 years. But hey you can't have everything. More from Borderlex WTO guru @chrishorseman.bsky.social borderlex.net/2025/09/11/w...

European Commission confirms that suspending the entire EU-Israel association agreement requires unanimity in the council. But only suspending the trade-related parts requires a qualified majority vote (begs the question: why didn't the commission do this earlier?)

UK carmakers: we can't meet new rules of origin for UK-EU trade SMMT, the leading UK car industry association warned of a looming cliff-edge for trade in electric vehicles with the EU at the end of 2026. #ROOs #EVs By @chrishorseman.bsky.social borderlex.net/2025/09/10/n...

Von der Leyen and EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic defended the EU-US trade deal tooth and nail in the @europarl.europa.eu today. #EUUS #TurnberryDeal @robfranciseu.bsky.social reports: borderlex.net/2025/09/10/s...

Hugh Lovatt, @hlovatt.bsky.social comments that the #EuropeanCommission proposal to suspend the trade elements in the EU-Israel pact “still does not go far enough". More here. borderlex.net/2025/09/10/c...

EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič confirms he will travel to Indonesia later this month to conclude the EU-Indonesia trade agreement. Will also visit India on Friday.

Re: #stateoftheunion speech - Quite a lot of stuff here we already know - EC to propose a "made in Europe" criteria for public procurement and a "new longterm trade instrument to succeed the expiring steel safeguard" #SOE

European Commission will propose a "partial suspension" of the EU-Israel association agreement "on trade-related matters" says @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu. "I am aware it will be difficult to find majorities" she says. "Any action will be too much for one, and too little for others."

One step closer to "Buy European" - my report following today's vote in the Europen Parliament on public procurement borderlex.net/2025/09/09/e...

Wow, no questions from the media following the commission's presentation of its "strategic foresight" report today. No-one could have predicted that! ;)