Trade is booming within the European Union. The exchange of goods among the member states is flourishing on the EU's internal market. But there are worries about trade relations outside the EU. US President Donald Trump is putting the EU under pressure with punitive duties. Also, Europe likewise faces major challenges in structuring its trade relations with Britain after the British withdrawal from the EU.
Trade
Internal market flourishes, but protectionism looms
Fight against smugglers rages on EU border with Belarus
On the EU's frozen frontier with Belarus, Latvian border guards are fighting a flow of contraband cigarettes reportedly benefitting organised crime and a close ally of the Belarusian president
EU chiefs express relief as ‘friend’ replaces Trump
The European Union's top officials express relief that they will again have a 'friend' in the White House as Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as US president
Scottish seafood sector takes Brexit protests to London
Scottish fishermen and seafood exporters rally in central London, parking slogan-bearing lorries near parliament in protest at post-Brexit rules they say are threatening the industry's future
Raab: British fishing industry’s problems will pass
Brexit trade deal stipulates that EU fishing boats must forego some of their fishing rights in British waters.
Brexit deal’s ‘rules of origin’ spark trade confusion
Many British businesses are swiftly discovering that they must now pay duties on exports bound for the European Union, despite the breakthrough Brexit free trade deal clinched over Christmas
UK’s Brexit plans to be tested as festive period ends
Britain faces the first true test of its Brexit preparations, with thousands of lorries set to make the Channel crossing for the first time since the country left the EU's single market and customs union