The United Kingdom is to propose a four-stage roll-out of the border checks which are still needed for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, with a timeline for implementation which will stretch well into next year.
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Week in London: SPS alignment with EU, fish, Vietnam, Lugano
An overview of notable events in UK trade policy this week. EU officials hint at ‘temporary’ SPS alignment to ease Irish border woes Amid all the strains and complications of Britain’s post-Brexit interactions with the European Union, a possible route map has emerged this week pointing towards a more stable …
Week in London: EU UK SPS deal(ings), Trade Remedies Authority, national security, United States
An intense week in UK trade….
Split Brexit agriculture quotas reveal pattern of subtle renegotiations
The European Union and the United Kingdom are making further progress in their ongoing push to divide up the EU’s existing WTO-bound tariff rate quotas with key supplier states.
EU warns UK over compliance as Parliament votes to ratify TCA
The European Parliament is to be “involved as appropriate and necessary” in all discussions on the evolution of relations with the United Kingdom, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen promised today.
Week in London: Data bridge to Asia, India, Serbia, freeports
This week’s British trade policy highlights below. UK ‘will build bridge’ between European and Asian data privacy frameworks The UK has an ambition to build a ‘bridge’ in the area of digital trade and data protection between the more cautious EU approach to data privacy and the more open approach …
European Parliament to vote on UK-EU trade deal ratification
The European Parliament is to go ahead with a vote at its plenary session next Tuesday (27 April) to ratify the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, thereby bringing the deal formally into effect.
EP committees back EU-UK trade deal – but still no green light for ratification
The trade relationship between the European Union and United Kingdom remains on a fragile footing, despite an important step yesterday (15 April) by two key European Parliament committees to endorse last December’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the two sides.
Week in London: EU UK trade relations shadow committee, Lugano Convention spat
United Kingdom-EU trade scrutiny will happen regardless, it seems… ‘Shadow’ committee to scrutinise EU-UK trade relations outside Parliament A pro-European UK thinktank has set up what amounts to a ‘shadow’ parliamentary committee to assess the impact of the UK’s exit from the EU single market, and to scrutinise the UK’s …
Renegotiation of EU-UK TRQ splits: status report
Further progress is being made in the campaign to renegotiate the splitting of European Union tariff rate quotas between the United Kingdul and the EU27, following the former’s departure from the EU customs union as from 1 January this year.
