News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
United Kingdom-EU trade scrutiny will happen regardless, it seems… ‘Shadow’ committee to scrutinise EU-UK trade relations outside Parliament A pro-European UK thinktank has set up what amounts to a ‘shadow’ parliamentary committee to assess the impact of the UK’s exit from the EU single market, and to scrutinise the UK’s …
Political tensions around Northern Ireland have calmed down. UK delivers requested ‘roadmap’ on Northern Ireland protocol implementation One of the European Commission’s key demands in its acrimonious debate with the UK over the Northern Ireland Protocol appears this week to have been met. British government sources reported on Thursday that …
The famous ‘cliff edge’ has not entirely been averted yet….
NGO lawsuit halts ratification of UK-Morocco FTA The tricky politics of northern Africa look set to thwart the government’s hopes of a smooth rollover of EU free trade agreement to apply to the UK. Moves to ratify the new UK-Morocco free trade agreement have been halted after a non-governmental organisation …
In other UK trade news…. London announces location of first eight freeports The government has announced the location of eight new freeports – the first such initiatives to be trialled in Britain since 2012. The identity of the new free trade zones – chosen following a bidding process which concluded …
Incoming USTR Katherine Tai signals review of UK-US FTA negotiations The chances of an early deal on a free trade agreement between the UK and the United States – which were never high – have receded further following the promise of a review of the dossier by incoming US Trade …
The UK is still adjusting to its new post Brexit trading environment. Not only business, but also its government structures.
The long battle to agree a Trade Bill for the UK is rumbling on, and other UK trade news this week.
Here some developments on the United Kingdom trade policy front this week. Consultation document published on new UK state aid regime The UK government has launched a consultation of the future shape of UK state aid – the issue which caused so much anguish during last year’s EU-UK FTA negotiations. …
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.
