Dumping/Duties

Dutch government buys time for farmers but tests the limits of domestic courts and EU environmental law.

Comments by U.K. chancellor to POLITICO shed more light on government negotiating aims as it tries to swerve Trump’s trade war.

With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else. 

Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election against Labour next week. Locals are indifferent.

Plans are being drawn up and, as one EU diplomat said, “We’ll take decisions to protect ourselves.”

U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is meeting her counterpart Scott Bessent in Washington this week.

The U.K. chancellor is in Washington this week for talks with finance ministers including U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

​This week, EU Confidential is on a spring break — but with trade tensions between the U.S. and the rest of the world (China in particular) escalating, …

Despite Donald Trump’s lurch into protectionism and coercion, Friedrich Merz believes a transatlantic trade deal can still be done.

EU leaders hope the Italian PM can convey their trade concerns to the U.S. president when she visits Washington.

How far is Labour willing to go to prop up Britain’s struggling industries? And will it be enough to see off the Farage threat?

The investigation could lead to new tariffs on semiconductors in a move that would have sweeping implications for Asian countries and the tech sector.

A POLITICO survey of more than 15 countries, including five key Asian trading partners, suggested confusion about the administration’s approach.

Brussels suspended its countermeasures against the U.S. president’s steel and aluminum tariffs before they even took effect. Now the two sides have 90 days to do a deal.

Pause buys time for Brussels to negotiate a deal with the US.

“It sounds like they are getting some good results,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.

“They are dying to make a deal,” says U.S. president as tariffs come into force.

European trade officials sure know how to have fun.

The lack of engagement is one signal the White House is still far from reaching substantive trade deals ahead of the midnight deadline for stepped-up global tariffs to kick in.

“This is a wake-up call on trade agreements,” French Trade Minister Laurent Saint-Martin tells POLITICO.

President Donald Trump was noncommittal in an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Brooke Rollins said countries are “burning” up the phone lines to talk trade.

A 25 percent U.S. tariff meant for aluminum caught brewers off guard — after all beer appeared to fall under its scope.