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Thursday, August 22, 2019
This column was written with input from Chris Horseman. This has been an eventful week, with EU-US trade frictions, e-commerce, Mercosur, the Energy Charter Treaty, Australia and New Zealand, and WTO fish talks featuring high on the agenda. Below are other notable developments. Andean countries safeguard commodities exports to UK …
Diplomats of more than 75 countries met in Geneva this week to formally start negotiations to set rules for trade in the 21st century in the World Trade Organization. The aim is to achieve a so-called ‘plurilateral’ agreement among a subset of organisation members which others could join later.
The United Kingdom’s musings about the desirability of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership post-Brexit could be rendered academic – because the 11 CPTPP countries may decide not to invite the UK to join, according to a leading trade analyst.
The United Kingdom’s tech businesses could find a niche role in helping developing countries to ‘climb the cliff-edge’ of dealing with data protection rules and allowing them to participate more fully in the global digital economy. But although developing such business could be a ‘win-win’ from both a commercial and …
After European elections later this month, the challenge in Europe will be to keep our nations’ own Trumpian instincts at bay and position ourselves as a safe haven in a turbulent world, writes Iana Dreyer.
The UK needs to put a much higher priority on the interests of its services sector in future trade negotiations with both the EU and non-EU countries – or risk serious damage to a sector which makes up the bulk of the British economy.
The United Kingdom has taken another step towards securing its trade relations with developing countries post-Brexit with the conclusion of a new ‘rollover’ agreement with the CARIFORUM community. The rollover, announced on Friday, allows the trading preferences established under the EU’s European Partnership Agreement with fourteen CARIFORUM states to be …
The United Kingdom has agreed a deal to roll over the provisions of the existing EU agreement on trade in goods with the European Economic Area countries Norway and Iceland. But talks with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique on a similar rollover agreement are reported to have broken …
Britain has guaranteed the continuation of duty-free imports of sugar from Fiji – a major supplier to the British market – with the rollover of the European Union’s European Partnership Agreement with the Pacific Island group. The Department of International Trade in London today confirmed that a ‘continuity agreement’ had …
The United Kingdom is to apply zero tariffs on the majority of imported goods if it leaves the European Union at the end of this month with no deal in place. But tariffs will persist for sensitive agricultural products, cars and textiles. No tariffs or any other import checks will …
