The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea will bring about an unparalleled series of tariff liberalisation and dismantling of technical barriers to trade, enabling EU businesses to gain extensive and comprehensive access to the Korean marketplace. It will immediately remove €1.6 billion of export duties levied annually on EU exporters of industrial and agricultural products, and €1.1 billion [...]
In October last year the EU and South Korea initialled a massive free trade agreement, which, if approved, will be the second largest free trade agreement in history, behind the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The agreement must now be ratified by all 27 EU member state governments, as well as the European Parliament. [...]
ROBERT STURDY WELCOMES HISTORIC TRADE TALKS BETWEENEU AND VIETNAM
3 March 2010
Euro MP Robert Sturdy has welcomed the launching of talks towards a free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the EU that could allow the Asian country to export more to Europe, the world’s biggest consumer market.
Mr Sturdy, Conservative International Trade spokesman, said these talks [...]
CONSERVATIVE EU TRADE SPOKESMAN WELCOMES AGREEMENT WITH PERU AND COLOMBIA
Brussels Wednesday 3 March 2010. Conservative International Trade spokesman Robert Sturdy today welcomed the European Commission’s ambitious trade deal with Peru and Colombia.
The trade agreement is step in the right direction in increasing prosperity in the region and in the development of human rights, he said.
In [...]
INNOCENT SRI LANKANS WILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF HEAVY HANDED EU DECISION TO END TRADE CONCESSIONS
Brussels 16 February 2010. Conservative International Trade spokesman in Europe Robert Sturdy MEP, said the European Commission decision to remove trade concessions to Sri Lanka would punish innocent Sri Lankans. The trade concessions are referred to as GSP + status.
Mr Sturdy [...]
PRESS RELEASE
30 November 2009
The EU is failing to show leadership in the World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva by allowing the Doha trade round to be sidelined, Robert Sturdy MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists trade spokesman in the European Parliament, has warned.
Faced with an increasing hostility towards trade liberalisation in Washington, and tit-for-tat protectionism between [...]
The European Union’s Commissioner for International Trade, Catherine Ashton, has announced her wish for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to re-appoint her as the United Kingdom’s Commissioner in Brussels for its next five year term, preferably in her current portfolio.
Each member state is entitled to nominate an individual to become Commissioner and the Trade portfolio is [...]
