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What a digital divide and divergence of data governance in the Asia-Pacific mean for the UK

4 May 2022 Minako Morita-Jaeger is Policy Research Fellow at the UK Trade Policy Observatory andSenior Research Fellow in International Trade in the Department of Economics, University of Sussex The UK Government is aiming to secure the UK’s status as “a global hub” of digital trade, using Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) as well as digital economy agreements. Driven by the UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt strategy, the UK has been signing FTAs that include specific chapters/agreements on digital trade (such as with Australia, New Zealand, and Japan) and a digital economy agreement with Singapore. […]

By Nick Phipps|2022-05-04T07:22:44+01:004 May 2022|UK - Non EU|1 Comment

Finding the benefits of Brexit: food law and the UK’s emerging regulatory identity

10 March 2022 Emily Lydgate is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex and Chloe Anthony is a Doctoral Researcher and Tutor at the University of Sussex Law School From chlorinated chicken to sausage wars, food law has been highly contested in defining the UK’s post-Brexit direction. Not only is it seen as vulnerable to deregulation through trade agreements, the UK has faced new trade barriers with the EU and between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. These have concerned regulatory issues and have had an enormous impact on food trade. While much attention has rightly focused on Northern Ireland, departure from the EU’s regulatory union has provided a steep challenge in the rest of Great Britain, too. Food law is a devolved matter and Scotland has passed legislation setting out its intent to continue aligning with EU law, including for food law. […]

By Nick Phipps|2022-03-10T15:14:58+00:0010 March 2022|UK- EU|2 Comments

End of an era: Why Brexit threatens London’s position as Europe’s financial powerhouse

4 February 2019 The Government’s presumption it can negotiate a special deal to prevent UK-based banks being frozen out from lucrative business within the EU after Brexit is highly likely to be proven wrong in time, according to our latest study: ‘Equivalence, mutual recognition in financial services and the UK negotiating position’. The Briefing Paper by Dr Andy Tarrant, Dr Peter Holmes and Prof Dan Kelemen warns that the EU is almost certain to reject any approach to a future trade deal that seeks to retain UK-based banks access to EU markets while giving the UK the ability to vary its regulation away from that applied by the EU. […]

By Nick Phipps|2019-02-04T12:05:31+00:004 February 2019|UK- EU|0 Comments

Hard Brexit, soft Border. Some trade implications of the intra-Irish border options.

7 December 2017 Dr Emily Lydgate is a lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex and a fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory. How can the UK uphold its commitment to leaving the EU Single Market and Customs Union while also preserving the invisible intra-Irish border? Leaving aside crucial questions of political feasibility, this post looks at some of the options and their trade and border implications. Notably, there are limits to ‘flexible and creative’ solutions that involve turning a blind eye to customs and regulatory checks solely on the intra-Irish border: trade rules leave little room for such ad hoc approaches. […]

By Nick Phipps|2017-12-07T13:34:29+00:007 December 2017|UK- EU|2 Comments

What a digital divide and divergence of data governance in the Asia-Pacific mean for the UK

Finding the benefits of Brexit: food law and the UK’s emerging regulatory identity

End of an era: Why Brexit threatens London’s position as Europe’s financial powerhouse

Hard Brexit, soft Border. Some trade implications of the intra-Irish border options.

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