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23 July 2021

Hinrich Foundation

Enabling trust, trade flows, and innovation: the DEPA at work

23 July 2021

Servicing the Commonwealth: liberalising trade in the UK’s strongest sector

21 July 2021

Gov.UK

Board of Trade launches Green Trade paper

18 July 2021

ConservativeHome

The Dimbleby food plan would wreck Britain’s trade policy

16 July 2021

Cato Institute

The autos report and “national security” in trade

13 July 2021

Five years of the DIT

8 July 2021

TradeExperettes

Untangling the Digital Noodle Bowl: The Case for DEPA

4 July 2021

BBC

Lorry driver shortage threatens Haribo sweets

30 June 2021

BNEF

Liebreich: Climate Action – It’s The Trade, Stupid

30 June 2021

StraitsTimes

Singapore and UK launch negotiations for digital economy agreement

27 June 2021

Spectator

The EU’s lowering of food safety standards must end talk of alignment

24 June 2021

Telegraph

Britain’s post-Brexit trade partners around the Pacific will help us tackle China’s unfair practices

22 June 2021

YahooNews

UK starts talks to join £9tn Trans-Pacific partnership

19 June 2021

CANZUK

New Zealand & UK Aim To Conclude Trade Deal In August

19 June 2021

CPS

Proposals for clean free trade

17 June 2021

IZA

Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

15 June 2021

FT

UK and Australia agree post-Brexit free trade deal

14 June 2021

GBNews

Tony Abbott says Britain has nothing to fear from UK-Australia trade deal

14 June 2021

ITV

Import of hormone-treated beef ‘not happening’ says Trade Minister, Liz Truss

10 June 2021

CityAM

UK should slash barriers to green free trade, says think tank

8 June 2021

FT

Plan to build UK trade ship will break WTO agreement, warn experts

7 June 2021

Adam Smith Institute

Ever closer mates: new polling on the UK-Australia FTA

3 June 2021

The Times

How the Brexit dividend can become reality

2 June 2021

StraitsTimes

CPTPP members agree to start inducting UK into trade pact

31 May 2021

The Times

Cut red tape around trade finance, say MPs

28 May 2021

The Times

Tories should hold their nerve on free trade

27 May 2021

Politico

Switzerland ends talks on EU partnership treaty

26 May 2021

IATP

Restoring Trade in Africa: Liberating the Continent from the Colonial Legacy

24 May 2021

The Times

Don’t let petty provincialism wreck an Australia trade deal

24 May 2021

Telegraph

The case for free trade is essentially internationalist

20 May 2021

Order-order

Strong backing for the benefits of free trade deal with Australia

20 May 2021

Poll: Almost 9 in 10 “Red Wall” Conservative voters back a new UK-Australia trade deal

19 May 2021

The Times

Boris Johnson backs tariff-free trade with Australia

18 May 2021

Gov.uk

UK prepares to launch new trade deal negotiations with Canada & Mexico

18 May 2021

Julian Jessop

Britain should welcome cheaper food from Australia, not tax it

16 May 2021

Telegraph

Don’t let narrow-minded protectionists squander our great Brexit opportunity

14 May 2021

CityAM

“The City is the global gateway for financial flows post-Brexit”

12 May 2021

Telegraph

The Tories’ pandemic spending frenzy cannot be the new normal

10 May 2021

GoaChronical

MoU approved- between India and the United Kingdom

8 May 2021

RTE

EU rejects UK compromise over Northern Ireland Protocol

7 May 2021

BBC

US backs waiver on vaccine patents

4 May 2021

Telegraph

Britain & India ‘fire starting gun’ on post-Brexit trade deal

3 May 2021

Bloomberg

“We need to break out of the zero-sum deadlock,” Okonjo-Iweala

30 April 2021

Gov.UK

G7 Roadmap for Co-operation on Data Free Flow with Trust

30 April 2021

Gov.uk

Trade Act becomes law

27 April 2021

EY

UK growth prospects significantly brighter in 2021

26 April 2021

The Guardian

Exodus of foreign workers ‘a threat to UK recovery’

26 April 2021

CANZUK

Visas & Skills Recognition Discussed In Australia-UK Trade Negotiations

23 April 2021

CER

How to make carbon border adjustments work for developing countries

20 April 2021

CapX

How to maximise the impact of the UK-Australia trade deal

19 April 2021

Cato Institute

Digital Trade Agreements and Domestic Policy

14 April 2021

Telegraph

Was this the week the country finally accepted Brexit?

13 April 2021

The Times

Australia moves to break trade deadlock

12 April 2021

RTE

EU, UK officials working to resolve NI Protocol issues

9 April 2021

FEE

Why the Captain of the Ever Given Should Get a Medal

9 April 2021

The Hill

Digital trade deal ripe for the Indo-Pacific

8 April 2021

Bloomberg

Millions Are Tumbling Out of the Global Middle Class in Historic Setback

5 April 2021

Politico

Britain brokers labor pacts with US states as it waits on trade deal

5 April 2021

Doubts rise over EU-Mercosur trade deal

30 March 2021

Reason

Africa Tries Free Trade

30 March 2021

Politico

Revenge of the precautionary principle

30 March 2021

Cato Institute

Why Did Donald Trump’s Trade War on China Fail?

27 March 2021

DW

Suez canal blocked ship could be refloated in hours

23 March 2021

BusinessDaily

Kenya now eyes UK talks on free trade in services

23 March 2021

ECIPE

Covid-19 and the Danger of Self-sufficiency

23 March 2021

IFT & The University of Buckingham establish strategic association

21 March 2021

Guardian

EU export ban would delay UK Covid vaccine drive by two months

19 March 2021

Reason

Biden, Democrats Are Locking in Trump’s Tariffs

17 March 2021

The Times

EU set to seize factories and block vaccine exports to UK

17 March 2021

Politico

UK’s competitive advantage: Free and fair trade

16 March 2021

BBC News

UK to shift foreign policy focus following review

15 March 2021

WTO

World trade in services rebounds

12 March 2021

PwC

Post-Brexit UK an increasingly attractive growth target for global CEOs

12 March 2021

The Economist

The many guises of vaccine nationalism

10 March 2021

Gov.uk

Board of Trade publishes first report

9 March 2021

VoxEU

Export controls on COVID-19 vaccines: Has the EU opened Pandora’s Box?

7 March 2021

BBC

Lord Frost accuses EU of ‘ill will’ over UK exit

4 March 2021

Politico

‘Global Britain’ must get real on migration

4 March 2021

Spectator

US suspends tariffs on Scotch whisky

3 March 2021

BBC

Rishi Sunak presents 2021 budget

2 March 2021

FT

Post-Brexit UK should craft itself as a services trading hub

1 March 2021

Bloomberg

U.S. Drops Digital Tax Demand

24 February 2021

FT

London should be centre of ‘Spac revolution’, says ex-LSE chief

24 February 2021

Washington Policy Centre

What is meant by “Free Markets” in the first place?

23 February 2021

Cato Institute

Tariffs Are Bad, and Clever‐Sounding Substitutes for Tariffs Are Just as Bad

22 February 2021

Telegraph

A future for India-UK trade?

22 February 2021

CityAM

G7 leaders commit to green Covid-19 recovery led by free trade

18 February 2021

BBC

Lord Frost: Brexit negotiator joins cabinet to deal with EU

16 February 2021

OUP

Global earnings inequality has fallen

15 February 2021

WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General

15 February 2021

FT

Brussels to allow data to continue to flow to UK

15 February 2021

BBC

Brexit lorry chaos avoided as freight flows ‘back to normal’

12 February 2021

VoxEU

Memo to the new WTO Director-General

11 February 2021

OECD

Services trade restrictions increased in 2020, compounding COVID-19 economic shock

11 February 2021

FT

Sweden flies the flag for the free-trade cause in the EU

8 February 2021

Genetic Literacy Project

‘Science over unjustified cautiousness’: Why UK should abandon Europe’s biotech crop rules

8 February 2021

Cato Institute

Antidumping, China and “Deindustrialization”

4 February 2021

ECFR

The EU’s misguided export regulation on vaccines

4 February 2021

ConHome

Joining the Pacific bloc marks the rebirth of Global Britain

2 February 2021

CapX

From CPTPP to welcoming the Hongkongers, Global Britain is taking shape

1 February 2021

The Telegraph

Britain is poised to become a Pacific player

27 January 2021

Politico

The bureaucratic battle to make the Brexit deal work

25 January 2021

The Sun

White wine loving Brits set for joy as free trade deal with New Zealand is just weeks away

24 January 2021

FT

Britain must rethink its ‘national security’ law on FDI

21 January 2021

Foreign Affairs

To Build Back Better, Biden Needs to Fix Trade

TWITTER

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Initiative for Free Trade

@IFTtweets 7 hours ago

*Accepting* that HMG will want to use services market access to leverage negotiations with India, there is still pl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ben Judah

@b_judah 5 hours ago

This is a Global Britain policy worthy of the name — graduates of top global universities will be free to move to t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Bojan Pancevski

@bopanc 4 hours ago

Pretty interesting: Britain is moving to attract global talent. If this is implemented it will be much easier young… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Sam Dumitriu

@Sam_Dumitriu 4 hours ago

Why is this great news? A few years back @ameliaste1 and I analysed the 100 fastest growing startups in the UK. W… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Sam Dumitriu

@Sam_Dumitriu 6 hours ago

If you have graduated from a top global university then you will be free to move to the UK without a job offer unde… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Inu Manak

@inumanak 6 hours ago

Tai met with Clouthier yesterday. If the readout is any indication of where things are heading, looks like Biden ad… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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