News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 19, 2022
All eyes have been on the CPTPP this week. London appoints trade envoy to Japan as CPTPP accession talks progress The United Kingdom has sought to bolster its trade relationship with Japan by appointing an official trade envoy to the Asian country. Greg Clark, a Conservative MP who was UK …
The United Kingdom has completed the first stage of its negotiations to accede to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership – and will now move on to the more detailed and trickier stage of market access negotiations with the 11 CPTPP states.
It is becoming increasingly clear Britain’s holy grail is CPTPP accession.
Signing on to a trade deal with Australia is seen in London as a major stepping stone towards CPTPP accession and, beyond that, towards a potential future agreement with the United States. But the move comes at the expense of tailoring trade agreements to specific British interests and ducks difficult …
The UK has joined the Asia-Pacific country digital agreement bandwagon by signing an agreement in principle on a digital trade deal with Singapore. The Digital Economy Agreement, which has taken only six months to negotiate, introduces modern principles to regulate data transfers and digitally-enabled trade between the South East Asian …
This week in UK trade policy offers greater clarity on the government’s trade policy plans for 2022 and on how the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is working out in practice for Sweden.
Hello, this is Iana Dreyer, stepping in for Chris Horseman this week. This was another familiar week in the politics of EU-UK post-Brexit trade relations, with Northern Ireland and access to fishing waters along the Channel Islands dominating the news. We shall come back to Northern Ireland. In the meantime, …
The London has finally begun face-to-face accession negotiations with the eleven member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership, as the UK’s celebrated ‘pivot’ towards the Asia-Pacific region moves closer to reality.
The United Kingdom’s long-held ambition to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership will take a big step closer to being realised later this month when accession negotiations between London and the 11-nation bloc finally get down to the details.
An overview of what Britain hopes from its CPTPP accession – and what various stakeholders think of the idea. By Chris Horseman.
