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19 November 2021

Gov.uk

UK’s first freeport at Teesside is now open for business

19 November 2021

Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)

Why the Export Strategy matters to small businesses

17 November 2021

National Observer

Canada launches trade talks with ASEAN to diversify global supply chain

8 November 2021

CityAM

International trade should be a friend -not a foe- to the UK’s green ambitions

6 November 2021

Bloomberg

Australia, U.K. ‘Confident’ of Free Trade Agreement by Year-End

12 October 2021

CapX

Immigration means low wages? This year’s Nobel Prize winner has other ideas…

8 October 2021

EventBrite

University of Buckingham to launch postgraduate programme in international trade

4 October 2021

FT

UK professional services firms hit by labour shortages

29 September 2021

Gov.uk

UK kickstarts talks to join CPTPP

27 September 2021

FT

UK visa schemes to ease lorry driver shortages dubbed ‘not enough’

24 September 2021

100 days at the WTO. What have I learned?

22 September 2021

BBC

Record backlog of cargo ships at California ports

20 September 2021

VoxEU

The impact of trade costs can be weak or strong – depending on how much countries trade

17 September 2021

Reuters

China applies to join CPTPP

16 September 2021

GOV.UK

Anne-Marie Trevelyan appointed SoS for International Trade

14 September 2021

Telegraph

Britain should go on the offensive with trade deals, says Truss

12 September 2021

PIIE

From hermit kingdom to miracle on the Han

10 September 2021

alashkar.pages.iu.edu

Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change?

8 September 2021

Gov.UK

TRA to reconsider findings of steel safeguard transition review

6 September 2021

Gov.uk

Mexican market opens its doors for imports of British pork

4 September 2021

ITIF

A Global View of Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows

1 September 2021

PIIE

Import substitution is making an unwelcome comeback

31 August 2021

FT

UK aims to conclude Pacific trade group talks by end of 2022

27 August 2021

Telegraph

Web cookie requests and red tape to be scrapped in post-Brexit data revolution

24 August 2021

FT

Continued use EU of certification for another year

23 August 2021

The Sun

Sir Ian Botham to serve as new trade envoy to Australia

18 August 2021

The Times

Root and branch reform of regulation will help make Brexit a success

16 August 2021

Financial Times

Shipping bottlenecks set to prolong supply chain turmoil

14 August 2021

The Economist

Brexit Britain wants to liberalise trade with poor countries

12 August 2021

The News Forum

Boom and Bust | The Future of Britain: Post-Brexit, Post-Pandemic

11 August 2021

NBER

Optimal Tariffs and Trade Policy Formation: U.S. Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Era

9 August 2021

Cato Institute

Questioning Industrial Policy

5 August 2021

The Telegraph

Post-Brexit Britain deepens ties with Southeast Asia

3 August 2021

European Commission

€7 fee to enter the Schengen Zone

3 August 2021

Decanter

‘Fantastic outcome’ as UK government scraps Brexit red tape wine forms

31 July 2021

Trade Beta Blog

New agriculture draft suggests nervousness in divided WTO

28 July 2021

Sally Jones

Is friction-free digital trade within our reach?

26 July 2021

CityAM

New visa planned for graduates of ‘top global universities’

23 July 2021

Hinrich Foundation

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

23 July 2021

CapX

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

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Businessweek

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Initiative for Free Trade

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