The United Kingdom’s trade policy has to date largely focused on signing agreements, first the replicas of EU FTAs, then new ones with Australia and New Zealand. While the key goal of accession to CPTPP is still to be achieved, there is little sense of what follows in the absence …
UK trade politics
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: UK-India, UK Australia FTA row, TAC advice awaits publication
The Ukraine war is affecting a lot of trade files, also British ones.
Week in London: Lords pick FTA scrutiny fight, border delays, UK steel third in US queue
And so goes the UK trade policy churn.
Week in London: Truss takes over Northern Ireland brief, cane sugar and fish quotas
An early Week in London column as Borderlex goes into Christmas recess. See you again early January!
British FTA strategy prioritising speed over quality, auditors warn
The United Kingdom government may be showing undue haste in pushing to secure new post-Brexit free trade agreements, and it risks sacrificing quality in the process. This is the warning in a new report published on Wednesday (8 December) by the National Audit Office – the UK’s independent public spending …
Trade Bites: What does an inclusive trade policy mean and how to achieve it?
Who are the ultimate stakeholders in UK trade policy? And how much of a say do they actually have in the policies that ultimately govern us?
Calls mount for a UK trade enforcement office
The ‘headline’ benefit to British businesses of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with European trade – namely tariff-free trade with the large trading partner next door – did not materialise in the case of at least one-quarter of eligible UK exports since 1 January this year.
Perspectives: UK trade policy in quest for a new equilibrium
There is a steadier feel to UK trade policy now that Anne-Marie Trevelyan has replaced Liz Truss as secretary of state. But true impetus requires the resolution of long-outstanding policy questions.
Mordaunt: Trade part of UK national security policy
The United Kingdom is planning to integrate its trade, defence, intelligence, and national security interests much more closely, as it pursues a strategy of using free trade and open markets to be “forces for good” in the world”. The recent so-called ‘AUKUS’ deal – the agreement between the UK, the …