EU Council Links Trade Defense Instrument Vote To Pending Proposal On China

There's been no progress on moving trade defense instrument reforms to a vote in the European Council since May, a delay that will continue since the reforms have been linked by member states to the Commission's pending proposal addressing China's non-market economy status, sources told Inside U.S. Trade this week. European Union sources said no serious work has been done on the reforms since May 13, the same day a Franco-German paper was submitted to the council that called...