News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, August 14, 2022
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
The European Union’s largest business umbrella group released its position paper on the coming negotiations with the United Kingdom on their future economic relationship this week. The move comes only days after the European Commission released a draft mandate for member states to sign off ahead of formal negotiations due …
Any new United Kingdom free trade agreements which offers zero tariffs on trade will be “worthless” in the absence of adequate rules of origin which take account of sector-specific needs, the UK government has been warned. In a policy paper published this week, the UK Food and Drink Federation – …
