Posted 9/25/2020. The top European Union trade enforcement official said this week that the bloc plans to "step up" its trade enforcement actions through existing tools and a new regulation it proposed in December to "counterbalance" the actions of other countries. Denis Redonnet, who was tapped by the European Commission in July to serve as its first chief trade enforcement officer, told the European Parliament International Trade Committee on Thursday the EU will be more "proactive" in trade enforcement amid "shifting economic relations and increasing trade tensions." "We intend to step up our use of existing enforcement tools to address breaches by proactively triggering dispute settlement mechanisms in our bilateral trade agreements, at WTO level or under the GSP system," he said, referring to the EU's Generalized Scheme of Preferences, which cuts import duties for developing countries. "Resorting to dispute settlement mechanism is a normal, civilized way to seek enforcement of legally binding commitments."
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