News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, June 2, 2023
Tariffs on imports into the United Kingdom of bed linen and similar products from India are to jump by 20% as from 19 June, as the country’s new trade preference regime enters into force. This comes as the other major source country for textiles, Bangladesh, eyes graduation from its least-developed …
An overview of key developments in UK trade policy as business and the opposition start looking beyond the 2024 general elections.
Well, here we have the United Kingdom also joining the semiconductor industrial policy bandwagon…..
A new chapter is opening up for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership as the UK prepares to become the bloc’s first acceding member later this year.
The European Council on Foreign Relations has been very active in recent days.
G7 leaders issued an exceptionally lengthy joint statement at a summit hosted by Japan in the city of Hiroshima that covers a range of topics from the war in Ukraine, to Taiwan, healthcare, food security and climate mitigation – to name some of the most important ones. One of the …
The UK’s liberal agricultural market access offer to Australia and New Zealand raised eyebrows – but it’s a case of ‘twice-bitten, thrice shy’ for Rishi Sunak’s government
Calls on London and Brussels to adapt rules of origin provisions within the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement are mounting after a major carmaker warned this week of the risk of possible factory closures in the UK.
The UK has announced the launch of negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement with Switzerland. The new FTA is intended to update and replace the current bilateral trade arrangements. These involve an incomplete rollover of the EU’s matrix of trade deal with the Alpine state. To a greater extent …
The history of the UK’s exit from the EU has been littered with ‘cliff-edge’ deadlines of various types. Some of these have just about been met, while others have been dramatically pushed back at the last minute.
