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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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  • Evidence 17 June 2025

    The UK-EU reset

    By Emily Lydgate et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    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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  • 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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    Summary CITP publication

    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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  • Briefing Paper 19 February 2025

    Regulatory cooperation through trade: Trends, challenges and recommendations for middle-power countries

    By Jiyeong Go, Emily Lydgate, Andrew Lang, Minako Morita Jaeger, Joris Hoste, Nicolò Tamberi and Bernard Hoekman et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    This Briefing Paper discusses the challenge for middle-power countries in global trade governance and explores institutional factors that facilitate successful dialogue on industrial policy and trade.

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  • Blog post 17 February 2025

    Changing firm behaviour, trade, and global decarbonization

    By Emily Lydgate.

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    Summary CITP publication

    Research finds that organisational standards, in conjunction with emerging regulatory requirements, are set to reshape firm-level trade strategies and international supply chains, but will only be globally effective if integrated into regulatory requirements, verified through robust conformity assessment and set through inclusive processes.

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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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    Summary CITP publication

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

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  • Briefing Paper 3 December 2024

    An EU-UK SPS Agreement: The perils and possibilities of (re)alignment

    By Emily Lydgate and Alex Carson-Taylor et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    This Briefing Paper sets out the rationale for an EU-UK SPS Agreement from the perspective of agri-food trade and identifies areas of UK divergence post-Brexit which will require re-alignment.

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  • Blog post 17 October 2024

    Linking EU and UK Emissions Trading Systems: Why, how, and is it easy or tough for the UK Labour Government?

    By Emily Lydgate.

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    Summary CITP publication

    Linking the UK Emissions Trading System (ETS) to the EU ETS is a logical first step UK-EU cooperation on climate change, it would also solve sensitive trade issues affecting the border on the Island on Ireland and have economic benefits.

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  • Blog post 27 June 2024

    Gritty problems in setting up the UK CBAM

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

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    Summary CITP publication

    Our response to the Government’s consultation on ‘Introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism from January 2027'.

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