News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, June 2, 2023
Tariffs on imports into the United Kingdom of bed linen and similar products from India are to jump by 20% as from 19 June, as the country’s new trade preference regime enters into force. This comes as the other major source country for textiles, Bangladesh, eyes graduation from its least-developed …
An overview of key developments in UK trade policy as business and the opposition start looking beyond the 2024 general elections.
Well, here we have the United Kingdom also joining the semiconductor industrial policy bandwagon…..
To save or not to save one single British company from Turkish competition, that is the question. And more in UK trade politics this week below.
Change is afoot in the UK. Badenoch quizzed as Commons trade committee meets for last time The UK parliament reached the end of a six-year-long era on Wednesday (19 April) as the House of Common’s international trade committee met for its final session. The committee is being disbanded as from …
It’s a fairly quiet Easter week in the United Kingdom, but London is looking ahead to the entry intro force of its new developing country trade preference scheme.
This week detailed – and interesting – new information emerged on the UK-New Zealand free trade agreement which is awaiting ratification. And the UK is now clearly on its own path with its trade remedies policy.
The United Kingdom is planning to follow the EU in setting up a carbon border tax regime to offset the risk of trade diversion for carbon-intensive products. But business groups believe it will be some time before details of the proposed British scheme are released.
A week dedicated to policy reviews.
A dispatch from another week in UK trade policy.
