Tag Archives: EU Trade

The Belgian state of Wallonia has reached agreement with the Belgian government and now looks likely that it will approve the Belgian governments sign off on the Canada EU Trade Agreement called CETA. The agreement which was due to be signed off at a summit on 27th October by the Prime Minister of Canada and […]

  Canada and the EU achieved the final stages of this agreement on 29 February 2016 when they announced the end of the legal review stage of the text. The legally reviewed agreement will now be submitted to EU Council and the European Parliament for approval. The objective of CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) […]

  Progress on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is still on going. But I have decided to use Ireland as a case example to show where the likely impacts and benefits to small business will be. The government of Ireland recently commissioned a report to investigate the impact to Ireland of the proposed […]

  The high level team dealing with a potential US-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has cleared the way for formal negotiations to begin. Indeed the European Union’s incoming trade chief is vowing to pursue an ambitious free trade agreement with the United States. The shared ambition would be to progressively move to a more integrated […]

The European Commission advised importers in June 2002 of the importance of the documentary evidence of origin in the context of securing preferential duty for sugar imported from the Western Balkans. The conditions for a proper functioning of preferential arrangements for sugar of tariff headings CN 1701 and CN 1702 imported from the Western Balkans […]

EU Trade – 7 Facts about EU Global Trade. September 2013 by Aidan Conaty I recently was gathering data for a presentation to prepare for the launch of Goodada’s European Inspection service when I became amazed at how big a player Europe is in international trade. While China and the other BRIC countries are rightly […]