EU Trade

📣 Great news! The EU and Singapore concluded the negotiations for a Digital Trade Agreement (DTA), the first of its kind. It will benefit businesses and consumers engaging in digital trade by: ◾ facilitating digitally-enabled trade in goods and services; ◾ ensuring cross-border data flows free of unjustified barriers; ◾ enhancing trust in digital trade, including through strong rules on spam. The agreement puts the EU and Singapore at the forefront of digital policy developments while upholding open and fair digital economies. For more information on this landmark agreement, click here 👇 https://europa.eu/!VtQrjr

🇪🇺💡 Around 2 out of 3 Europeans trust the EU to conduct its trade policy in an open and transparent matter. We can confirm. The European Commission has a firm commitment to being the world’s most transparent public institution in the field of trade policy. 🇪🇺💡 Last year, we identified and assessed more than 900 documents in reply to access to documents requests, corresponding to more than 4500 pages. We regularly update our website with reports on ongoing negotiations and meetings with civil society. 🇪🇺💡 We believe that transparency and accountability is key to making good policy. And we're glad that EU citizens trust us for doing so. Find out more about the Eurobarometer results ↓ http://europa.eu/!tDnvPT #Eurobarometer #Transparency #EUTrade

New International Trade Committee is all set! 🥂   The Committee on International Trade (INTA) is responsible for matters relating to the establishment, implementation and monitoring of the EU's trade policy.   Together with the Council’s Trade Policy Committee, it deliberates on the European Commission’s proposals on trade agreements and trade legislation, and represents the Parliament in trilogue negotiations with the Commission and the Council. Looking forward to working with the European Parliament on all trade matters. 🤝

🇪🇺💡 Attention maritime & inland waterway carriers: #ICS2 is now live!   Ensure your business and IT operations are fully compliant with the new safety and security data requirements before you send goods to the EU.   📥 Download this factsheet now. You’ll find crucial information to guide you through the necessary updates and preparations for seamless integration into the ICS2 system. 👉 europa.eu/!wnrDgb

🇪🇺🤝🌐 Europe’s trading power and economic openness is essential to our prosperity. And that is reflected in the political guidelines for the next Commission. Read the full text below ↓ Trade is an important pillar of our economic foreign policy. We will continue to deepen our free and fair trade links with growth centres and partners around the world, ensuring reciprocity and a level playing field. In order to ensure access to what we need to build diversified and resilient supply chains,we will also develop a new range of Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships and deepen our relationships on critical minerals and raw materials. To support this, we must sustain and improve rules-based trade, including through a reformed and strengthened World Trade Organization. At the same time, we will be more ambitious in enforcing our trade agreements and will use all of our trade defence instruments where and when needed. 🇪🇺🤝🌐 We will continue to deepen our free and fair trade links with growth centres and partners around the world, ensuring reciprocity and a level playing field. Read the full text here: https://europa.eu/!wywg4P #EUTrade #EUCommission #UrsulavonderLeyen

🇪🇺🍾 Congratulations to Ursula von der Leyen on your re-election as Commission President. We think champagne is in order, one of the EU's most festive export products. Over the last 20 years, exports of champagne outside the EU have doubled. Thanks to the outstanding quality of the product, of course, but also thanks to the EU's global network of trade agreements. "I really think that these trade agreements have enabled winegrowers to develop at the same time as the champagne producers, with a very, very significant dynamism of countries like South Korea and Japan," says Nicolas Follet, a winemaker from the Champagne Follet-Ramillon. 🇪🇺🍾 He is one of the winemakers talking about the art of making champagne, and the benefits the winemakers' experience with the EU's trade agreements. Have a look. Santé!

🇪🇺💡 Four out of Five EU citizens believe that we need international trade rules to maintain a level playing field. That's only one of the results from our most recent Eurobarometer on trade ↓ ✅ 82% of EU citizens believe that we need international trade rules. ✅ 50% of them agree that we need them because they help create a level playing field for countries and businesses, whereas 32% agree that we need international rules, but feel that it is naïve to expect others to follow them. ✅ Overall, 3 out of 4 Europeans agree that the EU is good at defending their country's trade interests. ✅ That is solid support for the EU's trade policy, across the EU. 🇪🇺💡 Over 26 000 Europeans answered our Eurobarometer survey on trade, from all walks of life, from every EU member state. Hear what they have to say ↓ http://europa.eu/!tDnvPT #Eurobarometer #EUTrade #EU

✅🇪🇺 Just one more thing to cross of your to do-list before your summer holidays: registering for our Civil Society Dialogues. What are those and what do they do? The European Commission is committed to consulting interested parties when drawing up policy and proposing action. So we meet regularly with civil society to discuss trade policy issues. That's what we call our Civil Society Dialogues. ✅🇪🇺 We really want broad representation in order to hear diverse opinions and encourages civil society to participate actively in the meetings. We believe it is important to make time and resources available to debate the issues, answer questions and discuss possible courses of action. We organise meetings on topics of current interest. Our aim: a transparent and accountable trade policy based on consultations with all parts of European civil society. ✅🇪🇺 So join our Civil Society Dialogue. Because we believe that transparency and accountability is key to making good policy. Register now: https://europa.eu/!8Fc79p #CivilSociety #EUTrade #PolicyMaking

🇪🇺🎙️😎 Our trade podcast Trade-Off is going Gen Z. What do young bright students think about the future of EU trade policy? Denis Redonnet, the EU's chief trade enforcement officer, asked two of his students to join him in a frank conversation about trade. These bright young students didn't hesitate to speak their mind and share their concerns, hopes and expectations for EU trade policy in an increasingly uncertain world. Listen to our latest Trade-Off episode and subscribe on your favourite platform! 🎙️🇪🇺 Quo vadis trade policy? Tune in to find out! https://europa.eu/!CXKCWt #TradeOff #Podcast #EUTrade

🇪🇺 Applications for the next round of bluebook traineeship are now open! And trade is looking for you!👇 Do you want to: ✅ have a front-row seat to the EU's trade policy making ✅ meet other young EU professionals ✅ learn 100+ new acronyms? Then apply now for a 5 month paid traineeship with us. Your desk is waiting for you! 👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿 🇪🇺 https://lnkd.in/eKeysJcQ PS: raise your hand in the comments if you are a Bluebook alumnus! #BlueBook #EuropeanCommission #Traineeship