"Check against delivery" Thank you very much and thank you, Minister Sikela, for your excellent chairmanship and for the strong work of Czech Presidency. Even though if I know your work on the trade track may be over, you continue to work very intensively on energy track. Our discussions today focussed on three core issues for EU trade policy: World Trade Organisation reform, EU-US trade relations and our ongoing trade support to Ukraine. The EU is the strongest global champion of a...

Brussels, 29 August 2022 | The EU and Canada are trusted and like-minded partners that share the same goals when it comes to promoting open, sustainable and fair trade. Our EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) aims to support our common objective of climate protection. In this context, the European Commission has engaged in constructive discussions with the German Federal Government to prepare a text that clarifies certain provisions in CETA. The result of these technical discussions is a...

Posted on May 16, 2022 | New Policies Will Strengthen Our Economic Partnership, and Update Rules of Global Economy Read the U.S.-EU Joint Statement here. The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) held its second ministerial meeting in Saclay – Paris, France on May 15-16, 2022. U.S. co-chairs, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai were joined by EU Co-Chairs European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis to...

Countries with trade partners that implemented more stringent lockdowns had a sharper drop in imports. Though trade flows have adjusted, more diversified global value chains could help lessen the impact of future shocks. The demand and supply shocks unleashed by the pandemic were expected to lead to a dramatic collapse in trade, but international commerce has proven more resilient than during previous global crises. While goods trade fell sharply in the second quarter of 2020, it bounced back to pre-pandemic levels...

"Check against delivery" | Paris, 7 March 2022 | Introduction Good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me to be with you today. I am glad to be here in person. Because getting together, being in one room  makes a difference. This is especially true these days. The events of the past weeks are a watershed moment for us all. They alter the course of our policies and the calculus of our foreign relations. I don't want to say too much about...

From the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program | March 2022 | Forward The 2022 Trade Policy Agenda and 2021 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program are submitted to the Congress pursuant to Section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. § 2213). Chapter IV and Annex III of this document meet the requirements of Sections 122 and 124 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act...