This week’s highlights in British trade policy: a critical Lords report about a mutual recognition agreement with Switzerland on professional qualifications, another MoU with a US state – and paperless trade with Singapore.
Week in London column
Week in London: New Board of Trade members, Chile, GCC, EV rules of origin
This week in UK trade news: a new Board of Trade, negotiations with Chile and the GCC, and electric vehicle rules of origin.
Week in London: Steel safeguard extension, UK-EU, Labour party reshuffle
This week in London: the UK is also considering extending its steel safeguard, EU UK cooperation slowly gets back on track with this week’s formal announcement of Britain re-joining the EU’s Horizon research and development programme and Labour appointed a new business and trade shadow secretary.
Week in London: Food import border check delay’s fine print, steel anti-dumping
This week in London: the details of the UK’s coming new sanitary and phytosanitary border control regime for agriculture imports, and continued steel anti-dumping duties.
Week in London: Lords on Windsor Framework, UK-Taiwan
The latest in trade policy from London.
Week in London: Commons FTA scrutiny, paperless trade legislation
It’s obviously too tough for the House of Commons to look in detail at the UK’s free trade agreements. But the UK will move towards paperless trading.
Week in London: Trade remedies, rejoining ETS and Horizon
This week in UK trade: the difficult politics of trade remedies, and plans to rejoin the EU emissions trading scheme and research programmes. Outgoing TRA chief to government: don’t destabilise us any further The outgoing chair of the UK’s trade remedies authority has taken a swipe at the government for …
Week in London: EU financial services MoU, ditching human rights, protecting steel tubes
It’s been a highly symbolic week in UK trade policy – there is finally a beginning of a conversation with the EU on financial services, and it’s becoming ever clearer that the government’s human and labour rights agenda for trade policy is not a priority, at least in its dealings …
Week in London: More on Labour trade plans, China optical cable fibre, Utah MoU
Overview of another trade week in the United Kingdom….
Week in London: Swiss professional qualifications MRA, Indian steel, UK strategy
Switzerland dominated British trade news this week.