The UK's post-Brexit subsidies and tariff regime enters the dock
The UK government is facing its first legal test of its post-Brexit subsidy control and global tariff regime after a High Court judge ruled that a decision to waive import tariffs on 260,000 tonnes of raw cane sugar in 2021, can be subjected to judicial review after British Sugar complained that the decision amounted to an unlawful subsidy.
Five year ‘truce’ agreed by the EU & US in Boeing-Airbus subsidies dispute
After a trade dispute of seventeen years which has seen retaliatory tariffs imposed upon each other’s imports, the United States and the European Union have agreed a five year moratorium on their long running conflict over aircraft subsidies to Boeing and Airbus.
The one true… subsidy
New Zealand’s decision to award tax incentives of up to 25% to Amazon Studios to film a new series of The Lord of the Rings in the country analysed under the prism of the EU’s own subsidy rules on financial support to the film production sector.
