EU trade barriers

The Bi-weekly Update - Agriculture and Bi-weekly update - fisheries are published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). The most recent, announced that the European Commission (EC) had published its ‘Trade and investment barriers report 2014’, which looks at the key barriers faced in trade and investment relations with “the EU’s strategic partners, i.e. China, India, Japan, Mercosur, Russia and the United States”.

Readers in South Africa will notice their BRICS partners here: Brazil (part of Mercosur), Russia, India and China. Where is South Africa? Where is Africa, for that matter?

The continent is covered in the report under the EU Market Access Strategy. Find the editorial comment about this in the CTA article 'EC trade barriers report provides insights into agro-food sector priorities in future trade relations' which can be accessed here.