Please join a free one-hour webinar on rising protectionism in public procurement, both in the United States and the European Union, on Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:00 Eastern Time, 14:00 UK, 15:00 CET. A panel of internationally recognized experts will
In 2024, major trading partners focused more on protecting domestic procurement interests than opening new procurement markets. That is the conclusion of a new Briefing Paper, Key International Procurement Developments in 2024, published by Thomson
December brought the publication of two new articles on international government procurement issues. 1. Jean Heilman Grier, “Preferences and Unilateral Measures in Public Procurement” in The Economics and Law of Public Procurement: New Global
On December 6th, the European Union (EU) and four Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) reached a political agreement on an
In July, the WTO conducted its ninth review of China’s trade policies and practices, including those relating to government procurement. At the conclusion of the Trade Policy Review (TPR), the chair, Nigerian Ambassador Adamu Mohammed
On May 14, the White House announced increased tariffs on $18 billion of imports from China across “strategic sectors,” including steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, critical minerals, solar cells, ship-to-shore cranes, and
The United States and the European Union (EU) illustrated how governments can contribute to green public procurement (GPP) by publishing an extensive list of initiatives, policies, and actions that they have implemented. With their Joint EU-U.S.
Since February, the European Commission has initiated three in-depth investigations of Chinese-owned companies to determine whether they have received foreign subsidies that give them an unfair advantage in an EU public procurement. In March, it terminated
A recently published briefing paper outlines key developments in international procurement that may be of particular interest to US suppliers. The paper, Key International Procurement Developments in 2023, published by Thomson Reuters, outlines activities in
Parties to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), led by the European Union and echoed by Australia, Canada, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, criticized US implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) at a