News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 19, 2022
All eyes have been on the CPTPP this week. London appoints trade envoy to Japan as CPTPP accession talks progress The United Kingdom has sought to bolster its trade relationship with Japan by appointing an official trade envoy to the Asian country. Greg Clark, a Conservative MP who was UK …
The UK has joined the Asia-Pacific country digital agreement bandwagon by signing an agreement in principle on a digital trade deal with Singapore. The Digital Economy Agreement, which has taken only six months to negotiate, introduces modern principles to regulate data transfers and digitally-enabled trade between the South East Asian …
London consolidates its vision for digital trade in new policy paper
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.
It’s an eventful week here in the United Kingdom, with the formal launch of digital trade talks with Singapore, a trade war averted over Northern Ireland, and the DIT overruling the Trade Remedies Authority over steel import safeguards. But there’s even more. It’s about digital, state aid, the Gulf and …
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 …
The United Kingdom and Singapore have formally launched negotiations towards a Digital Economy Partnership Agreement. Today’s negotiation launch is a diplomatic success for Singapore, which is seeking to become a hub for international digital trade governance.
By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman.
It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or Trade Policy Review. Below, other important developments…
The United Kingdom is slowly gearing up its activities as a non-European Union member of the World Trade Organization and revealing its own ‘colours’ in various trade files.
