A busy week in British trade policy!
UK trade legislation
UK extends steel safeguard measures for further two years
The United Kingdom is to extend safeguard measures applied on imports of fifteen categories of steel products for a further two years.
Week in London: TRA and a Johnson ethics row, Australia FTA, USTR Northern Ireland warning
While the world was glued to their smartphone screens for updates on the 12th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, some might have missed that this has been once again a turbulent week in the United Kingdom’s trade policy. By Chris Horseman and a little extra input …
Week in London: First post-Brexit anti-dumping duties, Vietnam
Anti-dumping and Vietnam feature this week in UK trade policy. UK set to apply first post-Brexit anti-dumping duties The United Kingdom has reached a fresh trade policy milestone by concluding its first autonomous post-Brexit trade remedies investigation. The Trade Remedies Authority announced last Friday (20 May) that it was recommending …
Week in London: UK green trade, Oz deal, data privacy
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 …
Week in London: NI protocol in danger, Australia and New Zealand, India, Russian palladium
It’s an intense week on the trade front in the United Kingdom.
London imposes Russian ban on accessing key services
The United Kingdom has announced a ban on doing business with Russia in a range of services sectors, including management consultancy, accountancy and public relations work. The move, unveiled on Wednesday (4 May), extends the focus of the UK’s economic battle against the Putin regime from goods to services. Bans …
Week in London: Indonesia FTA, border checks, China glass fibre AD duties
Another FTA in the offing?
Week in London: Russia and Belarus steel, Chinese steel, UK freeport programme
The United Kingdom is reallocating import quotas on steel imports from Russia and Belarus. But not for the same reasons as the EU.
British MPs urge government to commit to an autonomous CBAM
The British government should commit to introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM, of its own to avoid the risk of ‘offshoring’ high carbon emissions, an influential group of parliamentarians has said.
