04/07/2019 (Agence Europe) – The EU is extending trade defence rules to continental shelves and exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Member States, the European Commission announced on Wednesday 3 July. From next November, the EU's trade defence rules will also apply to goods transported to the continental shelf or European exclusive economic zones - no longer only to goods imported into the EU's customs territory. This new customs tool, developed in collaboration with the customs authorities of the Member States, is one of the measures to modernise trade defence policy in 2018. It will, according to the Commission, strengthen the protection of European companies against unfair trade, for example, through anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures for trade related to the exploitation of natural resources, such as oil and gas extraction and offshore wind turbines. Consult the text of the Official Journal of the EU: https://bit.ly/2XmVuCe (HD)