Which countries banned goods from settlements but trade with Israel?

The British government announced a ban on imports of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband telling Parliament the measure will be implemented within six to nine months. The decision followed a surge in settlement building and episodes of settler violence, and prompted a sharp response from Israel, which said it would impose four counter-measures including barring 12 British MPs from entry and closing the British consulate in Jerusalem. Following the UK announcement, 11 other countries — mostly members of the European Union plus Canada — issued a joint statement backing a two-state solution and signaling intentions to restrict trade in settlement-made goods. Spain and Ireland had already introduced national prohibitions earlier in the year, and the Netherlands and Belgium had also moved to ban such products. Trade links between the EU and Israel remain substantial: the EU accounted for 31.7% of Israel’s total goods trade in 2025 (€43.3bn), supplying 33.1% of its imports (€28bn) and receiving 29.4% of its exports (€15.3bn), according to the European Commission. Among the European states taking action or preparing bans, Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK, France and Spain were the largest trading partners with Israel in 2025, with bilateral trade totals of $5.36bn for Ireland, about $4.8bn for the Netherlands, $3.73bn for the UK, $3.62bn for France and $2.79bn for Spain. Legal and advocacy sources cited in reporting note settlement-origin goods form a small fraction of overall EU-Israel trade. A 2026 report from the Global Echo Litigation Center found roughly 5,900 shipments from Israel to Europe, with over 17% containing products originating from settlements, and observers describe the bans as largely symbolic but politically significant. The coverage also highlighted that some UK public-sector contracts are linked to companies associated with settlements, with an Al Jazeera investigation identifying at least 17 such companies holding more than £2.1bn in UK public-sector contracts. Israeli settlements are communities built on land occupied after 1967 and are widely regarded as illegal under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring its population into occupied territory. Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the number of settlers has grown from about 270,000 to between 600,000 and 750,000 people living across roughly 250 settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the figures in the reporting.