Trade: Weyand warns against regulatory imperialism

The Director General for Trade, Sabine Weyand, warns against alienating trade partners: „In particular, our autonomous measures in the area of sustainability are increasingly being criticized loudly and clearly by our partners as green protectionism and extraterritorial regulation,“ said the top official of the EU Commission. She said she has recently been confronted with the term „regulatory imperialism“ from interlocutors in Asia, Africa or Latin America.