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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Graham Lanktree |Camille Gijs
LONDON — India will retaliate against EU and U.K. plans to impose carbon border taxes, its commerce minister warned. “Any country which implements such taxes, which are non-tariff barriers to trade — India will respond with full measure,” Piyush Goyal told POLITICO on Wednesday. “It would retaliate with its own taxes and retaliate on the products of interest to the corresponding countries,” he added, in remarks that went further than earlier criticisms of the tax from New Delhi.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Antonia Zimmermann
BRUSSELS — The European Commission is weighing a side declaration to ease French concerns and secure the approval of a long-delayed trade pact with the Mercosur trade bloc, three diplomats and officials told POLITICO.
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2 weeks ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Koen Verhelst |Camille Gijs
Szczyt upamiętni 50. rocznicę nawiązania stosunków dyplomatycznych między UE a Chinami — w czasie gdy relacje te są naznaczone sporami handlowymi i frustracją Europy z powodu pomocy Chin dla Rosji w wojnie przeciwko Ukrainie. Dwóch unijnych dyplomatów powiedziało POLITICO, że szczyt odbędzie się 24 i 25 lipca. Termin ten potwierdziły dwie inne osoby blisko związane z przygotowaniami.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Koen Verhelst |Camille Gijs
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders will travel to China to meet their counterparts amid economic tensions and U.S. tariffs on July 24 and 25, diplomats told POLITICO. The summit will mark the 50th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic ties in a time when relations are marred by trade disputes and European frustration over China’s assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Bartosz Brzezinski |Camille Gijs
BRUSSELS — As the EU prepares to reimpose steep tariffs on Ukrainian farm goods next month, a top Ukrainian lawmaker has issued a blunt warning: The move risks not just economic damage to a war-battered ally, but a loss of trust in Europe itself.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Koen Verhelst |Daniel Desrochers |Ari Hawkins
The European Commission has responded to the U.S. administration with a newly tweaked list of concessions it is willing to offer to avert a transatlantic trade war, an EU diplomat and two EU officials told POLITICO on Monday. The new document comes in response to a first letter sent last week by the Donald Trump administration aimed at laying out principles for negotiations — which marked the first concrete engagement from Washington.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Jon Stone |Nicholas Vinocur |Camille Gijs |Sophie Inge
LONDRES — La Grande-Bretagne et l’Union européenne ont conclu lundi un nouveau pacte de défense et de sécurité, dans le cadre d’un vaste “reset” (“réinitialisation” en français) des relations entre Londres et Bruxelles après des années tendues durant le Brexit. Dans cet accord global conclu le jour d’un sommet majeur à Londres, les deux capitales ont également convenu de prolonger de douze ans, jusqu’en 2038, les droits de pêche généreux accordés aux flottes de l’UE dans les eaux britanniques.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Koen Verhelst
BRUSSELS — EU countries warned Thursday that they would reject any trade deal with President Donald Trump that mirrors the U.S. agreement the U.K., firmly opposing a baseline 10 percent tariff as a starting point for negotiations. “If the U.K.-U.S. deal is what the EU gets, the U.S. can expect countermeasures from us,” Swedish Trade Minister Benjamin Dousa said on his way into a meeting of EU trade ministers in Brussels.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Gabriel Gavin
BRUSSELS ―The United States has sent a letter to the European Commission in a first sign it is willing to engage in a negotiated deal with the bloc in their trade war, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. The move, which happened this week, is the first positive concrete engagement from the Donald Trump administration since the two sides paused their wave of retaliatory tariffs.
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1 month ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Camille Gijs |Daniel Desrochers |Ari Hawkins
Pomimo kilku prób negocjacji z Waszyngtonem w sprawie zniesienia ceł na europejskie towary Komisja Europejska, która zajmuje się polityką handlową w imieniu 27 państw członkowskich UE, nie osiągnęła jeszcze przełomu. Donald Trump wciąż trzyma UE krótko. Bruksela może po mistrzowsku go przechytrzyć Na początku kwietnia Trump nałożył 10-procentowe cła podstawowe oraz 25-procentowe opłaty na samochody i metale.
