Report from the Commission to the European Council. Trade and investment barriers report 2014

Summary:

Report published by the European Commission in March 2014 relating to trade and investment barries, as well as protectionist trends.

Further information:

The 2014 Trade and Investment Barriers Report (TIBR) addresses a selection of key barriers faced by European Union (EU) companies on the markets of the EU’s strategic partners. Its main objective is to raise awareness of the main trade restrictive measures and reaffirm the importance of tackling such barriers in a focused and concerted way.

This report underlines that barriers to access the markets of the EU’s strategic partners continue to persist in various ways. However, a number of positive developments suggested that progress was underway and that the EU’s Market Access Strategy was delivering on many fronts. Nevertheless, new barriers emerged  constantly and the EU would have to continue to monitor these markets with a view to applying a successful and targeted removal strategy.