Outlook: the fall agenda for trade polic • Table.Briefings

Globalization was yesterday; the new mantra of European trade policy is (transparent) strategic autonomy. Our fall trade policy outlook highlights which instruments the EU aims to use in the increasingly harsh international environment and which partners it wants to create binding agreements with.

The EU has significantly upgraded its trade policy in recent years. Brand new in its arsenal: an instrument against competition-distorting subsidies, aimed primarily at Chinese state-owned enterprises; and the International Procurement Instrument (IPI), with the help of which the EU wants to open up public tenders in other countries to European companies. Both regulations were adopted by the European Parliament and member states before the summer break.

Outlook: the fall agenda for trade policy

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