News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, October 17, 2021
The European Commission has unveiled a set of far-reaching proposals to facilitate movements of goods from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, in a bid to break the current deadlock over implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol. Sanitary and phytosanitary checks on food products entering the region are to be drastically …
The European Commission is to table a “far-reaching” proposal next week to address some of the trade complications arising from the application of the Northern Ireland protocol.
London consolidates its vision for digital trade in new policy paper
The European Commission may be prepared to look at innovative solutions to address the more negative consequences of the application of the Northern Ireland protocol – if the UK side is also prepared to show flexibility. This was the message conveyed by Commission vice-president Maroŝ Šefčovič following a ‘charm offensive’ …
The United Kingdom government has announced a unilateral – and indefinite – extension of the grace periods relating to movements of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Here our first autumn 2021 edition of Borderlex’s Week in London column: an easily readable digest of the week’s important but often off the radar trade policy developments in the United Kingdom. Information curated and written by Chris Horseman.
A quieter period beckons in trade policy as the EU initiates a legal ‘truce’ in Northern Ireland. Negotiations over some of the more technical issues at stake in the debate over the Northern Ireland protocol – such as medicines trade – continue.
The United Kingdom has challenged the European Union to renegotiate large parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol – or face the prospect of unilateral renunciation of these measures on the part of London. The essence of its proposal is to allow goods to move freely from Great Britain to Northern …
The United Kingdom will not be rushing to emulate the European Union by imposing carbon border taxes to prevent ‘leakage’ of carbon emissions in major industrial sectors.
The EU and UK have agreed a three-month extension to the ‘grace period’ allowing chilled meat products, such as sausages, to be moved from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain will have to keep its existing SPS standards unchanged for the three-month duration of the chilled meats extension – although, …
