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.
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Week in London: Chile deal upgrade, medical duty suspensions, fish war script in TCA
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, …
London holds first full talks on CPTPP accession – as Beijing, Taipei join the queue
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.
CPTPP accession talks get real for the United Kingdom
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.
Britain makes strategic case for joining CPTPP as accession talks begin
An overview of what Britain hopes from its CPTPP accession – and what various stakeholders think of the idea. By Chris Horseman.
Week in London: Indonesia, 29 pages of CPTPP questions
The United Kingdom is gradually building post-Brexit diplomatic trade ties with South East Asian countries. New joint trade committee with Indonesia The United Kingdom and Indonesia have set up a new Joint Economic and Trade Committee aimed at deepening trade links between the two countries. The initiative will “aim to …
Week in London: Border checks and Board of Trade
Some highlights in UK trade news this week. UK delays border checks on EU imports by a further six months The UK is to delay until next year the application of a whole raft of checks on imports of goods into the country from the EU, to give traders and …
New Zealand seeks to leverage Britain’s CPTPP bid in FTA push for tariff cuts
The British government has been challenged to translate its free trade rhetoric into action by boosting market access opportunities for New Zealand exporters as part of the free trade deal currently under negotiation between the two sides.
Tariff challenges ahead for UK as London formally applies to join CPTPP
After months of hints and signals, the UK formally announced on Monday (1 February) that it is applying to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership. In a move which rather redefines the concept of a ‘regional’ free trade agreement, Britain is aiming to be the first newly-acceding …
Week in London: Vaccine export row, Scottish trade plans, UK CPTPP bid
UPDATED on Friday 29 January 2021. It’s a rocky week in EU-UK trade. And more on the UK CPTPP bid as well as Scottish trade policy aspirations.
