At a recent press conference, Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson presented the European Commission’s new trade strategy, "Global Europe."
The focus is directed at Asia, especially China.
International high-level politics and tactical maneuvers are not always that easy to understand. At roughly the same time as the EU introduced a punitive duty on leather shoes from China and Vietnam, Mandelson was urging “rejection of protectionism on the home front, encouraging the EU to work actively to open up markets abroad by signing bilateral trade agreements.”
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