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  • Podcast 16 July 2025

    US trade policy in the first 6 months of Trump's second term

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    Series 6, Episode 8 - July 20, 2025, is six months since Trump’s inauguration for a second term in the White House. Since then, all previous norms of trade engagement have gone out of the window with the imposition (or threat) of tariffs on goods at rather arbitrary levels and out of line with WTO rules. Almost every supplier country now has its own personalised tariff rate – and some of the world’s least developed countries face the highest tariffs. In this episode, Meredith Crowley (CITP/University of Cambridge), Stephanie Rickard (London School of Economics), Chad Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and our host Chris Horseman (Borderlex) discuss what Trump might be trying to achieve with these measures. They also analyse the impact on America’s trading partners – and the global trading system – and how both may react to these challenges from Washington.

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  • Podcast 9 July 2025

    UK-EU agrifood (SPS) negotiations

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    Series 6, Episode 7 - In May, Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched a reset of the EU-UK relationship which included an agreement to begin negotiations on a deal on agri-food standards - an ‘SPS agreement’. The talks offer the prospect of a big reduction in the bureaucratic restrictions that have festooned cross-Channel agri-food trade since Brexit, but there are still a lot of questions about exactly how. In this podcast, Emily Lydgate (CITP, University of Sussex), Alex Carson-Taylor (international trade specialist), Sue Davies (Which?) and our host Chris Horseman (Borderlex) discuss the potential limitations inherent in the approach which London and Brussels have embarked on, the pitfalls that the negotiators might need to avoid, what it all means for Northern Ireland trade and the prospects for agri-food deals with other countries.

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  • Evidence 8 July 2025

    General Terms for the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal

    By Emily Lydgate et al.

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    Professor Emily Lydgate provides oral evidence to the International Agreements Committee of the House of Lords on UK-US trade, in particular the general terms published in relation to the economic prosperity deal (EPD). From a UK perspective, the EPD helps protect jobs in particular sectors like automotive (e.g. Jaguar Land Rover) and reinforces constructive UK-US relations. However, it offers limited certainty. It is not a binding trade agreement, but rather a response to political pressure and evolving US demands, especially from the Trump administration. This uncertainty takes away the businesses ability to plan. Additionally, the sectoral focus is very narrow, offering limited tariff relief beyond a few targeted industries, while broader issues such as the continued 10% reciprocal tariffs remains unresolved leaving us in a worse place than we were before this all started.

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  • Blog post 26 June 2025

    The UK Trade Strategy: Fit for the World?

    By Michael Gasiorek and Emily Lydgate.

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    In this blog, we highlight some key initial reflections on the UK's Trade Strategy

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  • Blog post 24 June 2025

    Reflections on the long-awaited UK Industrial Strategy 2025

    By Michael Gasiorek.

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    Five aspects that are to be welcomed in the Industrial Strategy.

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  • Briefing Paper 24 June 2025

    Negotiating a turbulent world: The role of devolved nations in UK trade

    By Alexander Fitzpatrick, Ludivine Petetin, Lisa Claire Whitten, Billy Melo Araujo, Viviane Gravey, Dan Wincott, Lindsey Garner-Knapp and Daniela Janikova et al.

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    This Briefing Paper explores the evolving position, role, and potential for the Devolved Administrations of the UK in how trade policy is formulated and implemented across the four nations of the UK.

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  • Video 24 June 2025

    UK-EU reset and how the UK might achieve 'good growth'

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    This event explores the key challenges and opportunities for UK trade policy, focusing on how it influences UK economic growth and productivity. The event was jointly organised by the Campaign for Social Science, the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, the University of Sussex, and UK in a Changing Europe.

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  • Working Paper 18 June 2025

    UK trade and productivity across space

    By Gio Mion and Dongzhe Zhang et al.

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    This paper looks at how international trade and agglomeration economies are connected and finds that in denser areas, the trade productivity premium is lower.

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  • Evidence 17 June 2025

    The UK-EU reset

    By Emily Lydgate et al.

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    Professor Emily Lydgate provides oral evidence to the European Affairs Committee, addressing questions on the outcomes of the recent EU-UK May summit, frictions that the SPS agreement would remove (or not), as well as the implications for existing border control posts established for post-Brexit checks, which could become redundant under such an agreement. Professor Lydgate highlights the EU-Swiss agreement as a useful reference point especially on exceptions, animal welfare, consultative processes, and dynamic alignment to see how the issues were resolved in implementation. Emily emphasised the importance of the UK avoiding an executive-led approach to dynamic alignment, noting that regulatory sovereignty is not the only legitimate democratic path.

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  • Podcast 11 June 2025

    Assessing the UK-US trade deal

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    Series 6, Episode 6 - Last month, Britain thus became the first trade partner to do a deal with the new Trump administration. The deal was limited in its scope - but nevertheless highly significant, given that Trump has hitherto been keener on imposing tariffs than removing them. Britain won some exemptions from new US tariffs on cars and steel, while the US will be granted new access to the UK’s agricultural markets. And there will be more to come in other sectors. Is this the start of a whole new economic relationship between the UK and the US? To discuss the pros and cons of the deal and what this means for other countries are Emily Lydgate (CITP/UKTPO, University of Sussex), Chris Southworth (ICC United Kingdom), Dmitry Grozoubinski (ExplainTrade), and hosted by Chris Horseman (Borderlex).

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