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Subsidies and other barriers to trade in the biofuel sector

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Global, USA
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  • January 8 2008

Biofuels (ie, ethanol and biodiesel) are a substitute for traditional fossil fuels and are viewed as a means of reducing carbon emissions and thereby contributing to the fight against climate change

First ever Transatlantic Economic Council meeting

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 8 2008

The first ever Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) meeting was held in Washington DC, US on 9 November 2007

First meeting of Transatlantic Economic Council

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, USA
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  • November 16 2007

The EUUS Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) met for the first time on 9 November 2007

US concerns over EU’s reclassification of IT products

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • October 31 2007

The US has expressed its concern about the EU’s interpretation of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) covering high-tech products that offers duty-free status to some items

US to challenge the EU's tariff treatment

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, USA
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  • May 27 2009

On 23 September 2008, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body established a WTO panel, requested by United States ("US"), together with Japan and Chinese Taipei, following the failure of formal consultations between the US and European Union ("EU") in resolving the dispute regarding EU’s imposed tariff policy for several categories of new-generation high technology products

External relations: EU and US agree to transatlantic market pact

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, USA
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  • April 27 2007

The US and EU have reportedly agreed to the terms of a transatlantic economic pact that would promote EU-US economic collaboration, with the ultimate goal of creating a transatlantic market without borders

Additional customs duties for US products exported to the EU prior to first application of those duties?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • August 8 2008

The German Court of Appeal recently lodged a reference for a preliminary ruling in the case J.E. Tyson Parketthandel GmbH hanse j. v Hauptzollamt Bremen (Reference number C-13408) regarding the question of whether products exported from the US prior to the date of first application of the additional customs duties, but after the date of entry into force of the applicable Regulation, are subject to additional customs duties

EU takes action against US biodiesel industry

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 27 2008

In January 2008 the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) petitioned the European Commission to take legal action against U.S. tax credits that have been critical to the development of the American capacity to produce alternative fuel sources

Countervailing investigations against China: the Canadian and US practices - the EU’s stance

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Canada, China, European Union, USA
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  • February 29 2008

Until April 2004, no WTO member had ever initiated any countervailing (anti-subsidy) investigations against China, essentially on the grounds that the Chinese economy did not yet entirely function as a market economy and, hence, it is not easy to calculate the levels of subsidy granted to Chinese companies (or more bluntly: everything could be a subsidy in China’s state-controlled economy

U.S. trade representative considers expanding the list of food and agricultural products from the European Union subject to punitive tariffs

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union, USA
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  • November 10 2008

Measures under consideration could lead to imposition of 100 ad valorem tariffs on selected food and agricultural products from specified EU countries