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.
UK Digital
Week in London: Plea for digital trade strategy, nimble state aid, Gulf, electric vehicles
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 …
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 …
UK and Singapore kick-start digital trade pact negotiations
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.
Week in London: Singapore digital talks, India consultations, Bowler takes over
By Iana Dreyer and Chris Horseman.
Week in Brussels: EU wants fossil fuels out of ECT, anti-coercion, 4 new TDI cases, UK data adequacy
It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or Trade Policy Review. Below, other important developments…
Britain tables legal text in WTO e-commerce plurilateral talks
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.
