Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on historic peace treaty
An agreement is ready to be signed, but Azerbaijan has a few last requirements.
Dispute Settlement
China hits back at Trump’s tariffs and complains to the WTO
Chinese measures won’t take effect until Feb. 10, leaving Donald Trump and Xi Jinping time to defuse their growing trade war.
Here’s what’s new in the EU-Mercosur trade deal
POLITICO brings you the new elements of Europe’s trade deal with South America struck last week.
China sues the EU over EV duties
Beijing hits back after Brussels imposed definitive duties of 8 to 35 percent on Chinese electric vehicle imports.
EU steps up fight with the UK over … sand-eels
A big legal fight is on the cards, with snakey fish at the center.
EU creates ‘Appeals Centre’ to referee disputes with social media giants
Appeals Centre Europe, an out-of-court dispute settlement body set up under the EU’s Digital Services Act and backed by Meta, is due to ‘decide cases relating to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube’ to begin with.
US Republicans fear UK Chagos Islands deal will boost China
Britain insisted its U.S. allies were fully behind the move to hand control of the islands – home to a secretive military base — to Mauritius.
Meet the world’s toughest trade negotiator. It’s not Donald Trump.
Piyush Goyal’s showmanship and negotiating savvy have made him a weapon for India as it takes up its mantle as a global superpower. But is his aggressive approach at risk of backfiring?
Trade policy: 20 people to meet at Labour conference
We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labour’s trade policy.
‘Russia must not prevail,’ EU tells the world
Wording is tougher than in statements from February.
WTO flops, USA shrugs
WTO members had little to show for five days of talks in Abu Dhabi, other than the extension of a digital trade tariff moratorium that has been in place since 1998.
Europe, in denial, longs for rules-based global trade order
As the EU fights to make the World Trade Organization matter again, it’s short on allies.
Guatemala fires key official in charge of WTO reform talks
The Guatemalan government has fired Marco Molina, a highly-respected Geneva-based official who has been leading talks for the past year on reforming the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement system. “I was fired,” Molina confirmed in a phone interview. “Just today I was notified that I was removed from office. Well, you know, developing countries […]
WTO boss too busy — for now — to think about 2nd term
“The thought hasn’t even crossed my mind,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells POLITICO.
Hurry up and tax Google, Apple, EU urges the world
Bloc to tell the G20 that the time has come to push through tax overhaul.