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Research Date 14 Nov 2016 Britain’s not quite open for business In Delhi last week I had the opportunity to hear how Indians see Britain and what they make of Prime Minister Theresa May. Mrs May went to Delhi earlier in... Read more
Research Date 31 Oct 2016 An £18bn misunderstanding A British think tank rather definitively announced last week that it had added up the potential tariff bill for EU-UK trade in a ‘hard Brexit’ scenario – and declared the... Read more
Research Date 28 Oct 2016 What kind of trade policy passes the Namur test? After a rough week in Namur, Wallonia’s capital, EU member states and EU trade policymakers will be reflecting on what CETA's near death brush with elected politicians means for future... Read more
Research Date 21 Oct 2016 CETA: What’s the matter with Wallonia? This has been a tricky week for EU trade policy. Up until last Friday, EU governments were largely expected to unanimously give their final greenlight in this week’s Council meeting... Read more
Research Date 12 Oct 2016 In the Brexit divorce, who gets custody of the EU’s FTAs? Like many divorces, Brexit is going to be a custody battle of sorts. UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox has warned (via his preferred UK newspapers) his... Read more
Research Date 20 Sep 2016 EU-UK (Un) Free Trade Agreement One of the consistent themes of the UK referendum campaign on EU membership was just how hard it would be to re-establish trading terms between the two sides if the... Read more
Report Date 9 Sep 2016 The future of UK trade policy: the case for regulatory diplomacy It is widely accepted that services, and financial services in particular, are a key comparative advantage of the UK. A full quarter of UK services exports are financial or insurance... Read more
Research Date 7 Sep 2016 Should the UK seek Customs Union with the EU? It was interesting to watch the new UK Secretary of State for Exiting the EU David Davis face-off for the first time with the British Parliament this week. As expected... Read more
Research Date 18 Aug 2016 Staying on the plane Alok Sharma’s first visit to China this week as the UK’s new Minister for Asia and the Pacific has been somewhat overshadowed by tensions over the Hinkley point investment. Sharma... Read more
Report Date 27 Jul 2016 UK trade policy and Brexit Among the many implications of a UK exit from the EU is a fundamental change to the way that the UK makes and implements trade policy. As part of the... Read more
Report Date 14 Jul 2016 Realizing TTIP's Strategic Potential The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States has been sold by politicians on both sides as a strategic opportunity... Read more
Research Date 12 Jul 2016 Getting real about the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy options Former UK Europe minister, David Davis was the latest UK politician to set out in print yesterday a post-Brexit manifesto for UK trade policy. In both substance and form, his... Read more
Research Date 5 Jul 2016 The UK’s ‘Canada Option’ just got even more difficult There are reports today that the European Commission is on the verge of the declaring the EU-Canada CETA a mixed agreement, paving the way for it to be ratified via... Read more
Research Date 13 Jun 2016 The ‘other NAFTA’ Mexican trade negotiators are in Brussels today for the first round of negotiations to upgrade the fifteen-year-old EU-Mexico FTA. The 2000 EU-Mexico agreement was one of the first ‘modern’ (translation... Read more
Research Date 31 May 2016 Brexit TiSA trailer At the end of last week the European Commission released its latest proposed bindings of market access terms in the long-running Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) negotiations in Geneva. For... Read more
Research Date 11 May 2016 TDI redux: do two political problems make a political solution? TDI redux. The EU’s trade defence instruments (TDI) reform package was officially put back on the agenda by the Dutch EU presidency today after having been shelved in 2014. However... Read more
Report Date 12 Jan 2016 Knowing when to quit: assessing the Nairobi WTO Ministerial While the eyes of the world were fixed on Paris in December 2015 for the COP21 climate summit, the 10th WTO Ministerial was also taking place in Nairobi in Kenya... Read more
Report Date 18 Oct 2015 The new deals: the 2015 EU trade strategy The European Commission last week published its new trade policy strategy, the most comprehensive restatement of EU trade policy since 2010. It is exceptionally ambitious – adding more FTAs to... Read more