News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
This is a first in a series of columns recapping some of the latest trade developments in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the key developments in May include a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Peru. Also, several trade agreements are on the horizon namely, …
The UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission, an advisory body to the government on trade policy in relation to the country’s agriculture sector, released a much awaited report late last week on the consequences of Britain’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership. Here some comments.
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up in August thus far. The Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hinrich Foundation have been focusing on WTO issues, while the European Council on Foreign relations focuses on the EU’s version of ‘friend-shoring’.
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 United Kingdom and Singapore have formally launched negotiations towards a Digital Economy Partnership Agreement. Today’s negotiation launch is a diplomatic success for Singapore, which is seeking to become a hub for international digital trade governance.
The United States and the United Kingdom replicated the terms of a preliminary settlement agreed between Washington and Brussels this week in relation to subsidies to their civil aircraft companies.
Whether London’s recent apparent decision to agree to give Australia duty-free-quota-free market access to its food exports was part of the de facto preconditions for today’s decision of the CPTPP members to allow Britain to launch accession negotiations remains unclear. But it was clearly good timing.
The countdown for a second round of European retaliatory tariffs in response to United Sates tariffs on steel and aluminium from the European Union and the ex-EU member United Kingdom is now clearly on.
This was the last major ‘trade continuity’ deal for the Department of International trade to conclude as the end of the United Kingdom’s transition period with the European Union loomed. Ankara was waiting for the EU and UK to conclude their future relationship deal to put its signature under a …
The United Kingdom is slowly gearing up its activities as a non-European Union member of the World Trade Organization and revealing its own ‘colours’ in various trade files.
