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Top gear or crunching gears: Trade and the auto sector

The UK automotive sector faces mounting pressure such as Trump’s 25% tariff, raising key questions on export impacts and global trade opportunities.

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Negotiating reciprocal tariffs

Five guidelines to preserve the global trading system when responding to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.

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Exports in Disguise?: Trade Rerouting during the US–China Trade War

An examination of the issue of circumventing tariffs by rerouting goods through third-party countries.

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Regional deprivation, individual prospects and political resentment

Does individual income positions shape political attitudes differently based on local economic conditions?

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Civic Power in Mining Conflicts: Barrier or Catalyst for a Just Energy Transition?

The global landscape of civil resistance to mineral extraction and its implications for the political sustainability of the energy transition.

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The economic impact of secession

An assessment of the economic impact of secession on both seceding and successor regions.

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How important are organizational standards to the net-zero transition?

A discussion on how to navigate the current challenges facing trading firms in the net-zero transition.

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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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