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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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    Summary CITP publication

    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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    Panel discussion reflecting on key challenges and opportunities for UK trade policy, focusing in particular on how it influences UK economic growth and productivity. Event 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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  • Blog post 10 June 2025

    Gene-editing: a barrier to proposed free flow of plant and animal products between the UK and EU?

    By Jiyeong Go and Emily Lydgate.

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    This blog sets out the differing EU and UK regulatory approaches to gene-editing and their potential implications for negotiating a common SPS area.

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  • Evidence 6 June 2025

    UK economic security

    By Minako Morita Jaeger, Sunayana Sasmal and Achyuth Anil et al.

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    In response to this inquiry scrutinising the approach to economic security within Government, our evidence focuses on the need for a clear strategy for economic security based on principles that reflect the UK’s economic and security priorities, strategic sectors and policy measures. To promote international partnerships through trade agreements, the UK government should explore avenues for diversification, transparency, and early-warning mechanisms to prevent over-reliance on a single country. For example, the UK must work closely with the EU, Japan, Canada and Australia to counter the US’s economic coercion. Furthermore, the UK could extend its economic security partnerships, such as South Korea, India and ASEAN. The UK should ultimately give serious consideration to a dedicated anti-coercion instrument.

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  • In The Media 4 June 2025

    Pope Leo XIV wants to stop AI playing God (Politico)

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    Article by Politico on how the new pope, Pope Leo XIV, is challenging the technocracy of artificial intelligence. Includes comment from Maria Savona, "the Vatican wants to avoid some developments in AI that would be damaging to human rights and human dignity, which would likely disproportionately impact lower skilled workers".

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