Judgment_paragraph 56 · European Commission v Council of the European Union (C-137/12)

56In that regard, it follows from Article 207(1) TFEU – and, in particular, from the second sentence of that provision, in the words of which the common commercial policy belongs within the context of ‘the Union’s external action’ – that the common commercial policy relates to trade with non-member countries, not to trade in the internal market (see Case C‑414/11 Daiichi Sankyo and Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland [2013] ECR, paragraph 50).