Europe: International Law

Communiqué No. 2026/28 on the Prevention of Unfair Competition in Imports, published in Official Gazette No. 33340 dated 14 August 2026 (the “Communiqué”), announced eleven anti-dumping and countervailing measures whose periods of application will expire during the first half of 2027. Unless an expiry review investigation, known in Turkish as a nihai gözden geçirme soruşturması (“NGGS”), is opened in respect of them, those measures will expire between 15 January and 14 June 2027.

The UK announced, on 29 May, that it had become the first G7 country to strike a trade deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) after almost four years of negotiations. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) opens unprecedented opportunities for businesses across the Gulf region, supporting economic diversification and the vision strategies driving the nations forward.

The UK Supreme Court's narrow 3-2 decision in The Kingdom of Bahrain v Shehabi denies state immunity to foreign governments accused of remotely hacking individuals within UK territory, establishing that cyber surveillance operations causing harm to UK residents fall outside traditional immunity protections. This landmark ruling clarifies the territorial tort exception under the State Immunity Act 1978 and may expose foreign states to liability for state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting UK-based individuals