A. Exporting from the EU

• Common EU rules for exports
• Export credit insurance
• Dual-use export controls
• Exports — Specific rules
  • Applying OECD guidelines in the field of officially supported export credits
  • Trade arrangements for processed agricultural products
  • Export of cultural goods
  • EU ban on trade in instruments of torture
  • Dual-use export controls (until 8 September 2021)

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B. Importing into the EU

• Common EU rules for imports
• Allocation of EU import and export quotas and licences
• Common rules for imports from certain non-EU countries
• Imports — Specific rules
  
  • Trade arrangements for processed agricultural products
    
  • Responsible trade in minerals from high-risk or conflict areas
  • Rules for trade across the Green Line in Cyprus
  • Imports of textile products from non-EU countries
  • Importing cultural goods
  • Trade in seal products
  • Trade in rough diamonds: implementing the Kimberley Process
    

C. Trade defence

• Anti-dumping measures
• Combining various types of trade defence measures
• Protection of the interests of the EU and its Member States from economic coercion by non-EU countries
• Safeguarding competition in air transport
• Rules for trade across the Green Line in Cyprus
• EU rights to apply and enforce international trade rules
• Anti-subsidy measures
  

D. Common trade policy

• The EU’s International Procurement Instrument – IPI
  
• Disputes between foreign investors and EU governments
• Effects of foreign legislation on the EU’s financial interests
• Bilateral investment agreements — EU and non-EU countries
  
• Union Customs Code
• EU external action
• International trade rules: how the EU can exercise its rights
• A paperless environment for customs and trade
• Agreements – Trade
  • Interim Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Eastern and Southern Africa States
    
  • International agreement on olive oil and table olives
  • Economic and trade agreement between Canada and the European Union
• • EU and the WTO
    • Adapting EU trade defence measures following a WTO ruling
    • WTO: agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property
    • WTO: agreement on trade in services
    • WTO: agreement on trade in goods
    • WTO: agreement on intellectual property rights relating to trade and pharmaceutical patents
    • WTO agreement
    • EU rights to apply and enforce international trade rules
  • Countries and regions
    
    • Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) with South Africa
    • Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Southern African Development Community countries
    • Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the CARIFORUM states
    • Economic partnership agreement between the EU and Japan
    • Economic and trade agreement between Canada and the European Union
    • Cotonou Agreement
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with North Macedonia
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Montenegro
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Kosovo
    • Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • EU relations with China
    • EU–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
    • EU-Malaysia Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation
    • EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement
    • EU–Indonesia Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation
    • EU—Vietnam Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation
    • EU-UK Trade and Cooperation agreement
    • EU trade agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
    • EU–Thailand Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation
    • EU-Switzerland trade agreement
    • EU cooperation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries: 11th European Development Fund
    • EU-Côte d'Ivoire Economic Partnership Agreement
    • EU–South Korea free trade agreement
    • EU–Russia partnership and cooperation agreement
    • EU and Iceland: clarification of certain rules relating to trade (safeguard measures)
    • Political dialogue and cooperation agreement with Cuba
    • Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCAs): Russia, the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia
    • Partnership Agreement with Armenia
    • Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Philippines
    • Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Mongolia
    • Pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin
    • Investment Protection Agreement between the EU and Singapore
    • Interim Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Central Africa Party
    • Interim Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Eastern and Southern Africa States
    • Association agreement with Ukraine
    • Association agreement with Moldova
    • Agreements with Canada on customs matters
    • Agreement with Bangladesh on partnership and development
    • Agreement on the European Economic Area
    • Agreement between the European Community and the Pacific States
    • Agreement between the EU and Denmark and the Faroe Islands
    • ACP countries — economic partnership agreements and export arrangements
    • Ghana-EU economic partnership agreement
    • Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam
    • Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Singapore
      

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E. Development and sustainability

• ​EU aid to non-euro area countries with trade deficit problems
• The International Coffee Agreement 2007
• Preferential European Union import tariffs for developing countries
• Fair trade — trade-related sustainability assurance schemes
• EU trade policy towards developing countries, including Aid for Trade

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F. European trade statistics

• EU statistics — balance of payments, trade in services and foreign direct investment​