News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, June 25, 2022
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 …
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 …
The Ukraine war is affecting a lot of trade files, also British ones.
And so goes the UK trade policy churn.
An early Week in London column as Borderlex goes into Christmas recess. See you again early January!
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 …
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?
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.
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.
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 …
