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On 4 April 2024, the EU and the US held their third high-level tripartite Trade and Labour Dialogue (TALD) with EU and US social partner stakeholders, focusing on ways to ensure a successful, just and inclusive green transition.

The European Commission has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate (‘PET’) from China, defending EU companies and more than 1,500 jobs. The EU market of PET has a value of over €5.5 billion.

EC-TRADE/2024/OP/0003 Study in support of an ex-post evaluation of the Agreement between the European Union and Japan for an Economic Partnership

EC-TRADE/2024/OP/0004 Support to civil society advisory bodies (Domestic Advisory Groups, or DAGs) in trade agreements

The European Commission and the Peruvian government have agreed on a list of technical cooperation activities to implement the labour rights commitments taken under the EU-Colombia-Peru-Ecuador Trade Agreement.

Today, the EU and the Philippines officially announced the resumption of negotiations for an ambitious, modern and balanced free trade agreement (FTA) – with sustainability at its core. 

In a ruling published on 5 March 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld the EU’s ability to take environmental and climate-based action under the Renewable Energy Directive (‘RED II’).

The European Commission was instrumental in brokering important outcomes at the 13th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (MC13) that ended Friday in Abu Dhabi.

Trade in services just got a boost with the entry into force of new World Trade Organization (WTO) rules facilitating and simplifying trade in services. The new rules apply to a large and diverse group of WTO Members, including developed, developing and least-developed countries.