The White House published, on April 3, an executive summary of the Report to the President on the America First Trade Policy that contains the reviews, investigations, findings, identifications, and recommendations requested by President
This post examines two developments relating to the European Union’s (EU) implementation of its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). First is China’s findings that the EU discriminated against Chinese firms in undertaking three in-depth investigations
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
A European court has issued a significant ruling that limits the rights of suppliers from the United States and other countries to participate in the European Union’s vast public procurement market unless the procurement is covered by the WTO Government
In response to European Union (EU) investigations of Chinese firms under its recently implemented Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), China has responded with its own probe of the EU. On July 10, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced it was commencing
The European Union targeted China’s procurement of medical devices in its first investigation under the International Procurement Instrument (IPI), implemented in 2022. The European Commission launched the investigation on April 24 in
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
The European Commission has launched its first in-depth investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) to determine whether a Chinese state-owned firm submitted an unduly advantageous offer in a Bulgarian train procurement as the
The European Union (EU) is adding a new tool to its defensive trade measures that will allow it to retaliate against countries trying to coerce it or its member states to take certain action. In June, its co-legislative institutions – the