This week’s edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) publishing the UK–Philippines Joint Economic and Trade Committee statement on trade cooperation, BIST publishing the ASEAN–UK economic cooperation declaration, the European Commission proposing Canada as the EU’s first associate member, the Commission announcing substantial agreement on the EU–Philippines free trade deal, EU–Thailand aiming to wrap up trade deal talks by the end of the year and the publication of definitive countervailing duty on Egyptian continuous filament glass fibre products in the Official Journal. It also covers the Trade Remedies Authority closing its subsidy investigation into creamy/white limestone imports from Portugal, the Commission announcing provisional safeguard measures on electrical steel imports, the publication of definitive anti-dumping duties on Chinese alkyl phosphonic acids in the Official Journal, UK titanium dioxide imports being subject to EU surveillance following amendment to anti-dumping regulation, the publication of anti-dumping proceeding concerning Chinese acetylsalicylic acid imports in the Official Journal, Chinese citric acid under interim review in the EU, the Commission proposing a temporary tariff liberalisation for selected Armenian products and EU lawmakers backing carbon tax for finished steel goods.