{"id":46528,"date":"2021-10-27T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/?page_id=46528"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:58:22","slug":"politica-commerciale-internazionale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo\/politica_europea\/politica-commerciale-internazionale\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Trade Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trade policy is the set of measures aimed at regulating trade in goods and services with third countries. It is an exclusive competence of the European Union and is managed through the European Commission. The Member States assist the EU in this action through the Trade Policy Committee (TPC) provided for in Article 207 TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, with the European Union DG, participates in the EU\u2019s work at all levels, first and foremost in the TPC, providing the necessary contributions to the definition of the common trade policy and representing the interests of national productive sectors there.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trade policy deals with the negotiation of free trade agreements between the EU and third countries, as well as those within the WTO, both at multilateral and plurilateral levels. These agreements cover tariff liberalisation and the removal of tariff barriers to trade in goods; market access for services; public procurement; protection of intellectual property rights; protection of foreign direct investment; trade defence, anti-dumping, etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Again within the EU, trade defence instruments (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard measures) are developed to protect European companies from unfair trade practices by third countries.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the EU establishes a special regime for the import and export of certain products, based on their sensitivity and in line with WTO rules. This trade is managed through the Foreign Ministry\u2019s issuing of import and export authorisations or certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Upon completion of the transfer of competences between the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) and the Foreign Ministry, all the former MISE offices located in the Viale Boston 25 complex have been transferred to the Foreign Ministry\u2019s headquarters<\/strong> (Piazzale della Farnesina 1, 00135 ROME).
\nYou can find here below the opening hours of the UASC desk:
\nMonday and Thursday: 11:00 a.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m.
\nTuesday and Friday: 1.30 – 3.00 p.m.<\/div>\n

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Contact details<\/span><\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Office XI DGUE – Import and export of agricultural products – E-mail: dgue11@esteri.it<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Office IX DGUE – Common Trade Policy – E-mail: dgue-09@esteri.it<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Office X DGUE – Access to Foreign Markets and Trade Defence – E-mail: dgue-10@esteri.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade policy is the set of measures aimed at regulating trade in goods and services with third countries. It is an exclusive competence of the European Union and is managed through the European Commission. The Member States assist the EU in this action through the Trade Policy Committee (TPC) provided for in Article 207 TFEU […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46489,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-estera.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170922,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46528\/revisions\/170922"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}