This week shows that adapting to new post Brexit trade realities is proving quite a challenge for the United Kingdom…. Rumours abound of delays to 1 October introduction of UK SPS checks
UK trade remedies
London to review UK trade remedies system after overruling independent authority
The United Kingdom government made a last-minute move to retain safeguard measures on five of the nine categories of steel products which had been slated for removal as from 1 July. The intervention came in the form of a ‘public notice’ issued late on Wednesday (30 June). It directly overrules …
Week in London: Northern Ireland issue heats up, steel safeguard, chicken to Japan
The European Union and the United Kingdom remain at loggerheads over meat shippings from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
UK to extend steel safeguards, narrows their product scope
The United Kingdom is to remove import safeguard measures for around half of the steel product categories on which they currently apply – primarily because the UK does not produce these product types.
Week in London: EU UK SPS deal(ings), Trade Remedies Authority, national security, United States
An intense week in UK trade….
Week in London: Cancelling Christmas, DIT staff, fish
Another week, another missed deadline – and still the EU-UK negotiations rumble on. MEPs prepare to ‘cancel Christmas’ as EU-UK talks drag on With now just 35 days left until the UK quits the EU single market and customs union, there is still no agreement yet on the basis on …
Week in London: EU-UK, Norway tariff deal, UK trade remedies
Overview of some of this week’s key developments in UK trade policy by Chris Horseman. EU-UK negotiations: no news is – probably – good news UK and EU negotiating teams relocated from London to Brussels on Thursday (29 October) to continue their intensive negotiations on the future relationship between the …
UK to apply five-year ‘sunset clause’ on rolled over FTAs in reintroduced Trade Bill
The British government is to apply a five-year sunset clause to all former EU free trade agreements which are ‘rolled over’ into UK law, under new provisions tabled to parliament in London. Under the new draft UK trade bill, which was reintroduced to parliament on Thursday, the approval of both …
TDI Series: Signs of more liberal stance as UK sets out post-Brexit trade remedy procedures
British businesses are facing a potentially challenging period of transition as Britain moves towards setting its own autonomous policy on trade remedies post-Brexit. A full set of measures to regulate and apply anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard measures will apply in the United Kingdom from January 2021 onwards, after the UK’s …
