EC-TRADE/2025/OP/0017: Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 on prohibiting products made with forced labour requires the Commission to establish a publicly available, indicative and non-exhaustive database of forced labour risks in specific geographic areas and with respect to specific products.
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Today, interinstitutional negotiations on improving the EU’s framework for screening of foreign direct investment (FDI) began in Strasbourg.
A study published today has found the EU and Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) boosted trade exports and diversified supply chains across all EU Member States.
Today the Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping duties of 131.1% on imports of vanillin originating in the People’s Republic of China.
Today the Commission imposed countervailing duties ranging from 3.7% to 8.1% on imports of optical fibre cables from India.
The European Commission has set up a new surveillance tool to help protect the EU against sudden and potentially disruptive surges in imports.
The European Union and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have formally launched negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement, opening the possibility of the first comprehensive EU trade deal in the Gulf region.
Today the Commission imposed anti-dumping duties of 13%-62% on imports of tinplate from China. The measures seek to protect the EU’s tinplate industry, which directly employs almost 5,000 people in five Member States, from being harmed by unfair trading practices.
The Convention will increase transparency in disputes brought by investors against States under investment treaties by ensuring greater public access to documents and hearings and permitting interested parties to make submissions to the tribunal.
The Commission’s biennial Report on the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Third Countries, published today, identifies IPR deficiencies in third countries that cause the greatest economic harm to EU interests.
