There’s not only the Northern Ireland drama playing out in UK trade. Carbon leakage ‘requires global solution’ – Trevelyan The UK has once more reiterated its desire to see a multilateral approach to preventing carbon ‘leakage’ in international trade, rather than replicating the unilateral carbon border adjustment mechanism approach pursued …
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Strings attached to EU’s UK data adequacy ruling
The European Commission has, as expected, granted the United Kingdom a data ‘adequacy’ ruling which will allow digital transfers between the UK and EU to continue more or less as previously. But in a move which testifies to the tense overall relationship between Brussels and London, the adequacy ruling will …
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 …
EU, UK take first steps towards cooperation on financial services
The European Union and United Kingdom have agreed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ on financial services – a modest but positive first step towards closer cooperation between the two sides in this sector.
Interview: The EU-UK trade agreement and the tech sector – a positive story to tell
It is probably fair to say that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and UK has received a ‘mixed’ welcome from the various business sectors since its conclusion on Christmas Eve, and its entry into force on 1 January. But for the digital and tech sector in the …
Comment: What the EU UK deal does for services, digital, procurement
This is an initial run through some of the ‘non-goods’ trade aspects of the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement inked on Christmas Eve and released for the world to read on Boxing Day. The main elements of goods trade were covered by Chris Horseman on Sunday. Plain English The …
Week in London: EU, freeports, data flows, GPA
Here is the first edition of a new Week in London column by Chris Horseman! As Britain’s trade policy agenda becomes ever denser, we’ll have a column to match our Friday Week in Brussels series to keep track of all the important developments on trade in London.
Week in Brussels: border carbon adjustment, Brexit preparedness, ESA, Georgia
Carbon border adjustment – Lange prefers ETS extension The German chemical industry association VCI held a webinar this week on trade policy and climate change. International trade committee chair Bernd Lange was a speaker. Whether this is an indication of what is to come as the EU prepares to prepare …
UK FTA text: London’s many unprecedented asks on EU
By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman. The United Kingdom released the draft legal text towards a future economic partnership with the European Union it has tabled to Brussels as part of their ongoing negotiations.
What’s so special about the trade deal the Commission wants to offer to Britain?
It’s a bit of a thankless task to have to unpluck 441 pages of a leaked draft EU treaty during a corona virus outbreak and amidst many other urgent trade matters that need covering. But here some initial thoughts on the ‘trade agreement’ aspect of the deal after a first …