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UK Trade Strategy analysis

We explain 11 key areas of the UK Trade Strategy and analyse how each area plans to deliver and where gaps remain.

Latest Briefing Papers

Our Briefing Papers provide a unique analysis of various elements of trade policy in the post-Brexit era.

The future of the WTO

In this webinar James Bacchus provides his views, as one of the original architects of the WTO, on the challenges that the Trump administration poses for the world trading system.

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