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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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