Brussels 7 October 2010. Conservative International Trade Spokesman in Europe, Robert Sturdy MEP, and Chairman of the Friends of Pakistan group, Sajjad Karim, today welcomed a European Commission announcement that it is seeking to temporarily suspend import duties on Pakistani goods entering the EU. The European Commission is making this move in a bid to [...]
16 September 2010 Korea Free Trade Agreement adopted by EU governments The adoption today of the EU’s Free Trade Agreement with South Korea will create thousands of jobs and add billions of Euros to both sides’ economies, Robert Sturdy MEP, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the agreement, said today. Italy today decided to drop its [...]
Italy puts short-term protectionism ahead of long-term growth in Korea Free Trade Agreement Brussels, 13th September 2010 – Robert Sturdy MEP, the European Parliament’s lead member on the proposed EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, has warned that Italy’s refusal to back the deal will cost the EU economy billions of Euros in lost trade revenues, whilst [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
