Free trade

The European Commission has unveiled plans for significant tariff hikes on grain imports from Russia and Belarus. The proposed tariffs, described as potentially functioning as de facto sanctions, aim to address growing concerns over the use of food exports as a geopolitical tool by Moscow while safeguarding EU markets and farmers.

The U.K. has launched a "Call for Input" seeking views from the U.K. and Turkish businesses and the wider public on objectives for a new, modernized free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.K. and Türkiye.

Mexico on June 24 began imposing a 50 percent tariff on white corn imports, a move the president says looks to boost national production and prevent imports of genetically modified corn.

New Zealand and Australia have ratified the multilateral trade agreement, considered the largest in the world, said today the Minister of State for Trade and Export Growing of Wellington Phil Twiford.

By Carl Bildt *

In 2015, the US had a trade policy that tried to fashion the global trade system of the future.

Britain and Turkey are set to sign a free trade deal on Tuesday, the UK trade ministry said on Sunday, the first since Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a new trade agreement with the European Union.

The EU-Vietnam trade agreement, the "most modern and ambitious agreement ever concluded between the EU and a developing country", got Parliament's backing on Wednesday.

In bilateral terms, Romania and the UK should be ambitious of their future after Brexit, UK's Trade Commissioner for Europe Andrew Mitchell told AGERPRES in a recent interview.

He also talked about the current agreement between the UK and the European Union on UK's withdrawal from the EU unveiled last week, as well as about the relationship between the UK and Romania.

The US will impose extra charges on imports of aluminum and steel from European Union countries, Canada and Mexico as of midnight on July 1. This was announced by US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

World financial leaders pleaded for an endorsement of free trade on March 19 amid worries about U.S. metals tariffs and looming trade sanctions on China, but Trump administration officials said they would not sacrifice U.S. national interests.