Since Brexit, Free Trade Agreements have been the focus of UK trade policy to the extent of obscuring other activities. Notwithstanding this year’s key achievement, accession to CPTPP, that agenda...

Trade policy is in flux, moving from previous norms of trade liberalisation and relatively strong institutions, to fragmentation and great power competition. There are obvious tensions between US,...

When it comes to Northern Ireland, there is rarely a single story. Complexities of post-Brexit trading arrangements were overlaid on existing political and social ambiguities in the form of a...

Notwithstanding endless discussions and early data, Brexit cannot yet be definitively declared a success or failure. Those who would point to trade deals and independent regulatory policy as signs of...

The publication of the UK government’s Northern Ireland Protocol Bill appears to have brought UK-EU relations to a new low ebb, with trade war an increasing concern to businesses. Below the...

There is the EU memory of the UK as the awkward odd one, always demanding exemptions and rebates, constantly complaining about Commission overreach. Then there is the conflicting recollection of the...

Introduction Six months after leaving the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market, and five years after the referendum to leave the EU, the UK’s trade policy is fully operational. Yet there is...

In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks with David Henig about the direction of the UK's trade policy, and how the politics of trade are shaping up in Britain. They analyse recent developments...

The UK has formally declared the intention to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the CPTPP trade agreement. After Brexit, the UK government...

For the UK government January 2021 meant finally starting the implementation stage of Global Britain. Freed from EU membership and replicating EU trade deals the country could move on to new Free...