New Delhi, July 10 -- BRUSSELS - When EU ambassadors gather in closed session Friday to consider a Commission document that circulated this week, the options in front of them will include, for the first time in formal Brussels policy text, a proposed outright import ban on goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

an export license system requiring importers to apply for permits; prohibitive tariffs designed to make settlement products too expensive for EU markets; and a full or partial import ban requiring customs authorities to identify and block them at EU borders. The document is the most concrete policy framework Brussels has produced on settlement trade since the 2015 labeling guidelines that pr...