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"Are uniformity and legal certainty in EU tariff classification really two sides of the same coin?"

On 17 April, many of us had the pleasure of attending an IGIR Expert Lecture by John Clarke, former Chief Agriculture Negotiator of the European Union and former Head of the EU Delegation to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations in Geneva. He is currently a fellow at the Maastricht...

Digitisation is becoming more and more important, including for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). DigiMach is a Euregional innovation project designed to help smaller companies in the metal sector move forward with digitisation. Maastricht University is one of the partners.

The European Commission has presented an Action Plan to update the system so that it can better support the Single Market, facilitate cross-border trade and keep pace with today's digital and mobile economy. Distinguished speakers and experts in the fields will point out and discuss strengths, proven...

Thursday 26 March at 18.00-19.00, Dr. Maarten Smeets will give an online Expert Lecture on the WTO reform discussions. All interested staff and students are welcome to attend!

Bij de verdeling van de EU tariefcontingenten is het toetsen van de wettelijke gevolgen van de Brexit voor de agrarische sector van het VK cruciaal. Het is onduidelijk of het VK zal slagen om de in-quota tarieven te vestigen voor belangrijke producten die de bestaande niveaus kopiëren. ^{(English text...}

The United States is threatening the multilateral trading system with a World Trade War - a combination of aggressive unilateral trade restrictions and a wilful disabling of the rules-based dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Other WTO Members must unite around a...