Search: WTO,European Union (4 materials)

(Dis)integration processes: Vulnerabilities of a globalised world

... economic rationale, a number of states apply a plethora of restrictions, extraterritorial sanctions, and actions that bypass the WTO with arguments based on national security interests and assumed political and military threats. As of 2020, the key problems ... ... lower, regional level. For example, trade wars between the US and China or restrictions imposed on foreign investments by the European Union are a part of global disintegration. In the shadow of the new EU industrial strategy, dirigisme will grow in the ...

18.06.2020

Reforming the WTO is a Long and Complicated Process

... paralyse the multilateral trade system. Andrey Kortunov: Why the World is Not Becoming Multipolard As for the other major player in international trade – the European Union – it has assumed a highly proactive stance on the issue of reforming the WTO. The European Union was the first to publish a list of specific proposals (a concept) on reforming the WTO. Analysing the entire list is rather a task for trade policy experts. It would therefore be appropriate to single out the key points. Even though the ...

18.12.2018

Caught up in dumping spat

... Imports”. Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-hits-back-at-u-s-proposals-of-anti-dumping-tariffs-on-steel-imports-1490966984 Zhou, Weihuan, and Shu Zhang. “Anti-dumping Practices and China's Implementation of WTO Rulings.” SOAS University of London. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741017000510 Commission Implementing Regulation 2017/141, Official Journal of the European Union, January, 27, 2017, http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/141/oj International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, “Fact Sheet,” http://enforcement.trade.gov/download/factsheets/factsheet-multiple-ctl-plate-ad-cvd-final-033017....

03.07.2017

Belarusian Experts’ Polemics: the EEU Needs New Growth Drivers

... union. At he same time, the government is holding negotiations with the World Trade Organization, and on September 13 the parties agreed on a road map on Byelorussia’s accession to the organization. Russia has promised to help Minsk to become a WTO member. Belarus views the EEU as an economic union that can survive global turbulence. What are the ideas and projects that Belarus intends to realize within the EEU? What does the Belarusian society think of integrating into the new union? What ...

02.11.2015

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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