EU TRADE POLICY must promote trade and investment openness for our companies in third markets

We want the new institutions to continue with the trend of concluding trade and investment agreements around the world and expanding the scope for European companies.
Trade defence instruments should be used efficiently and adequately in case the EU market is jeopardised by unfair commercial practices such as dumping in order to maintain a level playing field.
The priority for us is to conclude agreements with Australia and New Zealand, to achieve progress with Mercosur and to open up certain African markets.
Good relations with the US must remain among the priorities of the EU. We appreciate the EU’s efforts to reach an agreement on the removal of industrial tariffs and on conformity assessment. The EU must not only act defensively.
The EU must strive for more balanced trade relations with China and the reduction of its trade deficit. We believe that the newly elected EU institutions will be able to negotiate a balanced investment agreement with China, which will be the first step towards re-establishing EU-China relationship, and will ensure the same conditions for European companies in China, as Chinese firms have in the EU.
The benefits and possibilities arising from the free trade agreements need to be communicated in a comprehensible way to raise awareness among companies. We expect EU institutions to support the communication of the benefits of the EU trade policy.
We warn against Great Britain’s chaotic withdrawal from the EU without a transition period and we strongly support the adoption of an exit agreement. We want the future relations with Great Britain to be as smooth as possible and to be as close as possible to the current state.