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UK trade

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    EU and British energy groups call for rewrite of post-Brexit trading arrangements

    Open letter criticises ‘suboptimal’ mechanism under Trade and Cooperation Agreement amid push for more renewables

    A wind farm in the North Sea near Scotland
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Brexit
    UK delays third stage of post-Brexit border rollout

    Traders say repeated hold-ups by government are hitting business confidence

    Lorries arrive at the Sevington border facility in Kent
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Only six businesses sign up to customs sites in UK freeports

    Flagship Conservative policy was intended to provide economic boost after Brexit

    Liverpool’s freeport
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    UK traders set up own ‘inspection points’ for EU goods to tackle Brexit chaos

    Businesses sign up to ‘trusted trader’ scheme to cut costs and ease trade friction

    Provender Nurseries checks plants that have been imported from the EU and have just cleared their customs checks
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    UK reviews plans for ‘not for EU’ meat and dairy labelling

    Ministers reconsider Tory policy after concerns from food industry and unionists

    ‘Not for EU’ Tesco own brand food label for meat and fresh produce moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit is ‘stifling’ exports and imports, report finds

    UK trade deal with EU has led to ‘profound and ongoing’ impact on goods flow

    Trucks leave the Port of Dover
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK economy
    UK steelmakers face dumping risk over EU carbon tax timing, industry warns

    Ministers urged to bring forward start date of British scheme to 2026 to align with Europe

    Workers prepare to lift a bundle of steel reinforcing bar with a gantry crane at a metal stock yard in Shanghai
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    News in-depthBrexit
    New Brexit inspection charge is ‘huge extra expense for nothing’, say businesses

    Checks on food and plants in Kent have left companies nursing higher costs

    Trucks arrive at the Sevington border facility in Kent
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Should UK and EU link their emissions trading systems? Premium content

    Despite similar climate ambitions, a big price differential and design differences in the schemes will be hard to overcome

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Interview
    UK must drop ‘post-imperial delusions’ over trade, warns Douglas Alexander

    New UK trade minister says task is to rebuild post-Brexit links and revive deals with India and Gulf states

    The UK’s new trade minister Douglas Alexander
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    UK targets Gulf and India for international trade deals

    Trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds sets out government’s priorities for agreements with talks restarting in autumn

    Trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    UK ports to demand compensation if post-Brexit trade barriers with EU are lowered

    Industry body warns its members risk losing large sums of money if checks on animal and plant products are removed

    Portsmouth International Port
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU trade
    Trade links between UK and Germany stage post-Brexit recovery

    Lift comes amid Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s bid to improve relationship with EU

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Sir Keir Starmer sit at a conference table with other European politicians
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK says it is not about to impose tough tariffs on Chinese EV imports

    Trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds will remain ‘vigilant’ but is not planning to follow Brussels’ lead

    UK trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Interview
    India warns UK not to impose deadline on trade talks

    Two sides are ‘on board’ on important details, says commerce minister

    Piyush Goyal speaking into a microphone at an India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee in London, England
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Food from outside EU enters Britain unchecked, customs agents warn

    Inland border facility beset by delays and communication issues as it struggles to implement post-Brexit regime

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    What are Labour’s options for boosting trade with Europe?

    An assessment of the economic benefits of the party’s pledge to revisit the Brexit agreement

    Montage of British and EU images
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Badenoch compares Labour equal pay plans to apartheid South Africa

    Business secretary attacks ‘morally repellent’ proposal by main opposition party

    Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Brexit
    EU trade ‘not working’ for UK business, warns lobby group

    British Chambers of Commerce urges next prime minister to deepen ties with bloc in order to boost growth

    Shevaun Haviland
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Brexit
    Labour’s EU plan will have ‘minimal’ impact on cost of Brexit, says think-tank

    UK in a Changing Europe says proposal to improve trading relationship with the bloc would have limited benefit

    Trucks at Dover
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Rachel Reeves to seek ‘improved’ UK-EU trade terms if Labour wins election

    Shadow chancellor also wants to secure billions of pounds of investment via an international summit

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Why British trade policy needs to stand still

    The UK should shun any initiative that makes it harder to realign with the EU

    Texas governor Greg Abbott with Kemi Badenoch, the UK trade secretary, in London
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Brexit
    Next UK government must forge better trade relations with EU, says lobby group

    British Chambers of Commerce warns companies face ever higher costs stemming from Brexit

    Shevaun Haviland
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Labour of love between London and Brussels? Premium content

    A new Labour government could move swiftly to improve UK-EU trade but has shut the door to rejoining the single market

    Keir Starmer giving a speech
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK minister made secret trip to UAE after relations soured

    Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden flew out to Gulf state as Britain seeks fresh investment

    Montage of Oliver Dowden against UAE flag
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