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National security and IP protection of critical technologies

How to improve the balance of concerns between IP protection and national security?

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Can the WTO turn process into progress?

A view on the Ølberg process for World Trade Organization reform.

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The multilateral trading system under threat: actions and reactions

Special extended episode recorded live at the World Trade Organization Public Forum.

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Conformity assessment

Making international trade work properly.

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The trend and risks of boilerplating in UK free trade agreements

A guidance for Devolved Administrations to mitigate or reduce the negative impacts.

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How to price CBAM permits?

Combining the markets for ETS and CBAM carbon permits.

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Online Diploma in International Trade Policy

Our new online course is designed to help you understand how government policy, geopolitics, business, and technology impact international trade and learn how to apply conceptual and analytical tools to analyse trade policy.

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Trade Policy Animations

Our animated videos help to explain trade policy and its effects

Latest animation: International trade and UK economic growth

The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy is the first Centre dedicated to trade policy to be funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Centre is built on the precept that trade policy should be inclusive in both policy formulation and outcome.

Our aim is to build permanent capacity by developing a community of scholars and practitioners with the knowledge, skills and mutual understanding to develop robust trade policy in a changing world.

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