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The Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) have published today a Guidance on due diligence to help EU companies to address the risk of forced labour in their operations and supply chains, in line with international standards.

TRADE/2021/OP/0003 Study in Support of the Analytical and Editing Work with Regard to the GSP Assessment and Reporting to the European Parliament (EP) and the Council

From 6 to 9 July, the European Commission and Member States took part in the sixth negotiation round regarding the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).

TRADE/2021/OP/0001 Supply and Update of Data for the 'Import Requirements' and 'Internal Taxes' Sections of the European Commission's Access2Markets Website

July 1, 2021 marks the start of effective implementation by Ghana of the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (iEPA) between the European Union and Ghana.

The ten-year anniversary of the EU-Republic of Korea Trade Agreement comes with an impressive growth in bilateral trade of more than 50%, reaching over €110 billion.

The EU has today extended until 30 September 2021 the COVID-19 vaccines export transparency and authorisation mechanism in its current form.

The EU is prolonging for three additional years the safeguard measure currently in place on imports of certain steel products. The prolongation will apply from 1 July 2021.

The European Commission welcomes the launch of the Strategic Dialogue between the EU and the Republic of Kenya, agreed on 21 June 2021.