Trade Relations, Member State, Trade Policy

The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation: A New Tool Against Economic Pressure

WilmerHale on 4/3/2025

As global economic pressures mount, the EU has armed itself with a powerful new tool to counter economic coercion. The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/2675) has been fully in force for about a year...more

Adapting to Brexit: The New EU-UK Trading Relationship

WilmerHale on 5/4/2021

This Alert gives a high level overview of the new trading relationship between the European Union (‘EU’) and the United Kingdom (‘UK’) for goods and service supply. The EU and the UK reached provisional agreement on a...more

EU/UK trade and customs relationship in the new N. Ireland protocol

Hogan Lovells on 10/21/2019

The EU-UK agreement reached on 17 October 2019 ("Agreement") revises the Irish backstop with a new protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland ("NI protocol")....more

No-deal Brexit: Technical notices on trading goods published

Hogan Lovells on 9/21/2018

The UK Government has released a further batch of technical notices, providing guidance to businesses on the implications of an exit from the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement on 29 Mach 2019. ...more

EU and UK Transition Period Trade Terms

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/28/2018

• The U.K. and the EU have agreed on the substantive trade elements of the legal text set to govern the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU (the “Withdrawal Agreement”). If the other outstanding elements of the Withdrawal Agreement...more

State Aid: What we now know

Hogan Lovells on 1/19/2017

This week, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, set out the UK Government's long-awaited position on what the UK out of the EU should look like. The announcement of what is generally thought of as a "hard Brexit" negotiating...more