Maros Sefcovic referred to the idea of Britain joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM). These are common rules that allow parts and ingredients for manufacturing supply chains to be ...

Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s trade chief, said in a BBC interview aired on Thursday that the bloc would be open to discussing the UK entering the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention. The PEM program ...

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DAVOS, Switzerland — After years in which trade deals just kept slipping away, all the European Union needed was the shock of Donald Trump’s return to the White House to get its act together. Chief ...

“Cooperation is our preferred option,” is the line from Brussels as Trump’s tariffs threaten to kick off transatlantic trade war.

A top Brussels bureaucrat has claimed the EU should “consider” letting the UK join a tariff-free customs scheme. However, given Sir Keir Starmer’s red lines on the Single Market and Customs Union, the ...