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  • Briefing Paper 8 April 2024

    Interoperability of Data Governance Regimes: Challenges for Digital Trade Policy

    By Minako Morita Jaeger, Ingo Borchert, Professor James Bacchus and Javier Ruiz.

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    This Briefing Paper focuses on understanding what the interoperability of data governance regimes could mean and the main challenges it faces in the context of digital trade.

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  • Evidence 27 February 2024

    Industrial Policy

    By L. Alan Winters CB, Minako Morita Jaeger, Sunayana Sasmal, Michael Gasiorek and Peter Holmes et al.

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    Written evidence submitted to the Business and Trade Committee by members of CITP and the UK Trade Policy Observatory. The evidence focuses on the need for an industrial and trade strategy, economic security, critical raw materials, net zero, EVs and environmental services.

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  • Evidence 29 January 2024

    UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

    By Minako Morita Jaeger et al.

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    Dr Minako Morita-Jaeger provides oral evidence to the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee on the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. She answers questions about the basic principles of UK trade policy and the geopolitical gain for the UK in this deal stating that: The gain is the diplomatically enhanced tie with all the CPTPP countries. However, when it comes to economic benefit, this is very modest. We cannot predict certainty but the losers are likely to be the agricultural sector and semi-processed agricultural food.

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  • Blog post 11 December 2023

    Can trade policy enable “Data Free Flow with Trust?"

    By Minako Morita Jaeger.

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    This blog looks at how trade policy can be used to promote Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT), and possible challenges. This is at a time when DFFT is becoming a key concept in promoting global data governance in an era of intensifying geopolitics, emerging technologies, and concentration of digital market power.

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  • Evidence 27 September 2023

    Export-led growth

    By Mattia Di Ubaldo, Facundo Albornoz, Ingo Borchert, Michael Gasiorek and Minako Morita Jaeger et al.

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    This submission of evidence to the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee looks at opportunities for exports that can drive UK economic growth; what UK businesses need to increase exports; whether Free Trade Agreements are fit for the future and the adequacy of the Government’s Export Strategy (2021). The authors provide recommendations on how to address these issues.

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  • Book 25 September 2023

    Regulatory Constraints and the Political Economy of the UK’s Joining the CPTPP

    By Minako Morita Jaeger et al.

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    The UK’s decision to join the CPTPP marks the first time a country outside the Asia–Pacific region has joined the trade agreement. The move was motivated by the UK’s Global Britain agenda following its departure from the EU. Initially, the UK hoped to strike a trade deal with the US, but as interest waned, its focus shifted to the CPTPP. However, the economic benefits of joining the CPTPP appear limited, and some stakeholders are concerned about the potential domestic impact. In addition, the UK’s regulatory approach differs from the US’s market-driven model, with high standards for food safety, environment, consumer protection, and human rights. These standards could be threatened by the CPTPP, particularly in areas such as digital trade and food safety. There is also a tension between the Johnson administration’s desire to diverge from EU regulations and the public’s desire to maintain regulatory alignment. The UK’s joining of the CPTPP is thus a unique case, reflecting its history, ideology, and culture.

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  • Book 25 August 2023

    Bilateral, Trilateral or – Quadrilateral? The UK-US Trade Relations in a Global Context

    By Minako Morita Jaeger et al.

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    This chapter explores the key driving forces of UK-US trade relations after the Brexit in a global context. We first overview bilateral trade relations. Second, we analyse economic and political factors that have shaped the UK’s position on the UK-US bilateral economic relationship. Then we assess international factors that impact the UK-US trade relations in a global strategic context. We first note that the UK and the US are linked by services trade and investment rather than participation in global value chains. We argue that the UK for a long time had a very effective position, economically tied to the EU but politically closely allied to both. Brexit was intended to replace the EU with links to the US. But its supporters overestimated the interest of the US in a trade agreement and underestimated US support for the all-Ireland elements in the EU withdrawal agreement. Even without this problem, there is no support in the US for a traditional FTA. For the UK, regulatory approximation with the US is fraught with difficulties. In the global context, promoting the US trade and security agendas in the Indo-Pacific region could be seen as a way to promote UK-US trade relations under the Biden administration. The future is unclear. If the UK returns to more economically motivated policies, it will seek closer relations with both the US and the EU. If the UK remains politically driven, it will not be able to secure an FTA with the US nor to realise “Global Britain”.

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  • Evidence 3 April 2023

    Britain in the World

    By Emily Lydgate, Michael Gasiorek, L. Alan Winters CB, Ingo Borchert, Phoebe Li, Minako Morita Jaeger, Mattia Di Ubaldo and Maria Savona.

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    Response to the Labour Party National Policy Forum Consultation 2023 providing recommendations on trade policy and growth; digital economy and digital trade policy; international trade, worker and human rights, domestic decarbonization and environmental objectives and trade resilience and economic security.

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  • Evidence 27 September 2022

    International Trade Committee Inquiry for the CPTPP

    By Minako Morita Jaeger et al.

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    Minako submitted written evidence on the CPTPP for the International Trade Committee.

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  • Blog post 17 May 2022

    The UK's "Indo-Pacific tilt" strategy and inclusive trade policy

    By Minako Morita Jaeger.

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    Having left the EU, the UK is strategically shifting its focus from the EU to the Indo-Pacific. This blog provides analysis of the UK’s trade policy “Indo-Pacific tilt” strategy and the implications for geopolitical and societal inclusivity.

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