1 Amendments of Seán KELLY related to 2020/2114(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the growing tendencies towards protectionism and trade weaponisation that have developed in parts of the global economy; welcomes the strengthening of the EU’s trade enforcement efforts and the development of a toolbox of autonomous trade instruments to respond to these emerging challenges; stresses the need, however, to remain fully engaged in efforts to reinvigorate the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the cornerstone of a liberalised global economy and to deal with the challenges posed by non-market economies; recalls that European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from an open trade policy; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that trade flows and sustained value chains, including trading routes for freight traffic across the EU and beyond its borders, remain open to trading partners in order to ensure the EU’s competitiveness and protect European SMEs; reaffirms the importance of representing the interests of SMEs in multilateral trade negotiations;