29/05/2019 (Agence Europe) – Hostility to the allocation of tariff quotas between the EU and the post-Brexit United Kingdom remains strong at the World Trade Organization (see EUROPE 12203/23). On Tuesday 28 May, in the WTO Market Access Committee, several key EU partners, including the United States, China and Russia, once again protested against the method of allocating these quotas, according to a source in Geneva. Under GATT Article XXVIII, a Member may adjust these quotas as long as none of its partners is in a worse situation after this revision. This condition would not be met, these states note, because some of the allocations would be too small to be commercially viable. They therefore urged the EU to present a compensatory proposal. The EU replied that the extension of the Brexit deadline to 31 October will give it more time to complete these negotiations (HD)