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  • Blog post 20 May 2025

    A few important steps forward: the UK-EU strategic partnership

    By Ingo Borchert, Mattia Di Ubaldo, Michael Gasiorek, Peter Holmes and L. Alan Winters CB.

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    This blog looks at the UK-EU Common Understanding deal in terms of three areas related to trade: fisheries and trade in agri-food products, youth mobility, and cooperation on energy markets and carbon emissions.

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  • Blog post 16 April 2025

    Negotiating reciprocal tariffs: five guidelines to preserve the trading system

    By L. Alan Winters CB and Michael Gasiorek.

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    This blog outlines five positive steps that major trading partners to the US should take to preserve the essence of the global trading system when responding to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.

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  • Blog post 14 April 2025

    The CBAM evolves: the EU’s Omnibus Regulation and anti-shuffling measures

    By L. Alan Winters CB and Dongzhe Zhang.

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    This blog examines two recent EU CBAM developments and their implications

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  • Blog post 8 April 2025

    Stronger together than apart? A Collective Action problem for dealing with a trade war with the USA

    By Lindsey Garner-Knapp, Javier Ruiz Diaz and L. Alan Winters CB.

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    As countries consider what they might do in response to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, this blog puts forward the case for collective action.

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  • Blog post 10 March 2025

    Mr Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs and the Carbon Boarder Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

    By L. Alan Winters CB.

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    Will the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) be included in Trumps reciprocal tariffs?

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  • Working Paper 25 February 2025

    Whom do we trust to take trade policy decisions? Evidence from Citizen Juries in the UK

    By Maria Savona, Alice Livingston Ortolani and L. Alan Winters CB et al.

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    This Paper explores public attitudes towards trade policy in the UK through a series of citizen juries.

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  • Academic Paper 7 January 2025

    The UK's border carbon leakage trilemma

    By Emily Lydgate and L. Alan Winters CB et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    Concern about manufacturing emissions relocating to places with lax climate regulation has led some countries, including the United Kingdom (UK), to consider, or introduce, carbon pricing on imported products in some sectors. Such regulations, known generically as Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs), comprise the first mandatory requirements addressing emissions embodied in traded products. Existing analyses have identified BCA design options that minimize its controversial characteristics. In contrast, this article argues that optimization can only serve a subset of identified objectives: BCA design presents a policy trilemma between climate ambition, technical feasibility and international equity. The UK's status as a medium-sized economy proximate to the EU means that following EU BCA design, established through its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), will calibrate the UK's level of climate ambition (objective 1) to that of the EU, but lessen technical complexity (objective 2). It will not resolve international equity concerns (objective 3), but help the UK to address them diplomatically.

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  • Blog post 13 December 2024

    The UK CBAM journey: Assessing the Government’s response to its consultation of March 2024

    By Dongzhe Zhang, L. Alan Winters CB and Emily Lydgate.

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    The challenges that will result if the UK CBAM diverges from the design of EU CBAM

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  • Working Paper 10 October 2024

    ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’: The discursive framing of TRUST in international trade deals

    By Justyna A. Robinson, L. Alan Winters CB, Rhys Sandow, Sandra Young and Caitlin Hogan et al.

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    Using corpus-assisted discourse analysis, we focus on the concept of TRUST in trade policy. Our findings highlight a deficit of trust that could be remedied by greater honesty and transparency from the government.

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  • Academic Paper 20 August 2024

    How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?

    By L. Alan Winters CB et al.

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    Since Brexit, the UK has been responsible for its own trade policymaking rather than inputting into the collective policy of the European Union. This paper starts by sketching how that policy has been developed and implemented and how it is turning out. Overall, it is not very complimentary about the UK Government's efforts and so it then moves on to consider how we might do better. One dimension of this is how trade policy could be made more inclusive in formulation. I propose three (sets of) institutional reforms: increasing Parliamentary (and other) scrutiny of the government's trade policy plans; after examining how the UK public thinks about trade policy, it asks whether (how) one should take into account public attitudes to trade policy issues; finally, it argues for creating an independent source of advice and analysis on trade policy. It concludes by noting that while recent history has been disappointing, trade policy by any government would be improved by the reforms recommended.

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