Trade

Ministers have set out their proposals to ban the importation of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The general scheme of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill has now been published.

More than two dozen barristers have joined an Irish MEP to call for an urgent review of continued EU trade with Israel. A petition launched by Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Fianna Fáil MEP for Ireland South, has been backed and co-signed by Cormac Ó Dúlacháin SC, Cl&i

Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs have been struck down by judges who said the US president does not have the authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world. A three-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade (CIT) yesterday handed down

Legislation governing arbitration is to be amended to allow Ireland to ratify the EU's trade deal with Canada. The Supreme Court ruled in November 2022 that the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) could only be ratified if changes were made to the Arbitration Act 2010.

The House of Lords International Agreements Committee has today written to the Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, with concerns about the government’s dismissive response to its Working Practices: one year on report. In the letter, published today, the committee calls on the government to rethink i