Joaquim Caimoto Duarte clarifies the legal instruments available to the EU to defend and promote its interests | Jornal de Negócios

Joaquim Caimoto Duarte, Competition and EU Law of counsel, analyses which legal instruments the EU can resort to following the entry into force of the tariffs imposed by the US Administration, in a Jornal de Negócios’ article.

With the challenges associated with the growing protectionism of the US Administration, it is increasingly expected that the European Union and its member states will intensify their use of the law as a foreign policy ‘weapon’.

Joaquim Caimoto Duarte points out that ‘in recent years, EU legislation in general has increased its capacity to react against external trade actions’, and also explains some of the measures that, within the ‘regulatory arsenal’, the Union could use to confront US protectionism.

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