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RAPPORT (2025/2112(INI))

Sur les perspectives et défis présentés par une stratégie globale en matière d’intelligence artificielle pour le commerce de l’Union

A-10-2026-0122

Commission du commerce international · Rapporteur: Brando Benifei

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Parliament's resolution on an EU AI trade strategy calls for integrating AI into trade policy to boost competitiveness, enforce rules, and secure strategic autonomy. It urges the Commission to support SME AI adoption, use AI in customs, promote open-source AI, and include AI provisions in trade deals. It stresses diversifying supply chains for chips and critical minerals, and proposes a WTO working group on AI.

Committee position. The Committee on International Trade proposes a resolution calling for a comprehensive EU AI trade strategy, integrating AI into trade policy for competitiveness and enforcement while ensuring open strategic autonomy.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission to integrate AI advisory services into Access2Markets and the Single Entry Point, prioritizing SME-friendly tools.
  2. Urges investment in AI-enabled logistics, paperless trade, and open-source AI to reduce dependence on non-EU providers.
  3. Requests resources for customs and market surveillance authorities to use AI for enforcement, including analyzing small parcels and tracing products.
  4. Calls for AI to support compliance with due diligence, deforestation, and forced labour rules, and to uphold consumer protection.
  5. Asks the Commission to reflect AI interests in trade negotiations and assess AI impacts on workers and environment in trade agreements.
  6. Urges digital inclusion provisions and Global Gateway capacity building for open-source and ethical AI in developing countries.
  7. Promotes the EU's human-centric AI model internationally and calls for a global minimum floor of protections.
  8. Calls for digital trade agreements to include AI regulatory cooperation and protect regulatory autonomy and data flows.
  9. Proposes a dedicated WTO Working Group on AI and balanced e-commerce rules.
  10. Calls for accelerating Chips Act implementation and supporting Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen European semiconductor production.
  11. Urges coordination of economic security tools and a revision of the Dual-Use Regulation to address advanced AI.
  12. Condemns China's rare earth export restrictions and calls for monitoring and response.

Who is affected

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU, which would gain AI tools and advisory services for trade.
  • EU customs and market surveillance authorities, which would receive AI resources and skills.
  • Developing countries and Global South partners, targeted for digital inclusion and capacity building.
  • EU semiconductor and critical raw materials industries, which would see accelerated implementation and diversification efforts.
  • Non-EU cloud providers, which may face restrictions in public procurement under graduated sovereignty frameworks.

Figures and deadlines

  • 6 % of global investment in AI start-ups attracted by the EU in the first half of 2024.