Clearing goods at customs originally meant a lot of bureaucracy and paperwork. For many countries this is still the case today. In the EU, electronic customs procedures are already the norm. However, ...
Rules of origin determine when a product can be traded under the preferential conditions of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). They are intended to prevent trade diversions. However, they significantly inc ...
China is pursuing the issue of standardization with ambition. A separate program has been announced for the end of this year: China Standards 2035, and initial conclusions can already be drawn about i ...
In the trade dispute between the United States and China, the omens of rapprochement before the pandemic were good. Both countries agreed on a “Phase One Deal”: China committed itself to more imports ...
With the arrival of Joe Biden in the White House, many people are hoping for a restart of transatlantic relations. Biden is a transatlanticist and values the European Union (EU) as an important partne ...
The United States is one of the founding fathers and architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva but also one of the most notorious critics of the multilateral trade system. It is large ...
The United States is and remains an important partner for politics and business in Germany. In order to improve the transatlantic partnership, the new administration under Joe Biden and the EU should ...
