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Last week, business leaders urged the government to strengthen the UK's economic security following the latest tariff threats from Donald Trump. Yet, what does economic security actually cover? And what does it mean for trade? Minako Morita-Jaeger explains: www.uktpo.org/2026/01/07/a...
In our latest blog, Minako Morita-Jaeger looks at Cambodia's application to join the CPTPP, and introduces our latest report on the regulatory gaps between the CPTPP and Cambodia.
➡️ Read the blog: www.uktpo.org/2026/05/20/c...
👉 Read the full report: www.uktpo.org/wp-content/u...
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With talk of introducing legislation to bring aspects of UK food and energy regulation back to EU-alignment, Emily Lydgate explains how to future-proof the EU-UK relationship: www.uktpo.org/2026/04/17/h...
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The UK and EU announced in May 2025 that they would start negotiations to bring aspects of UK food and energy regulation back to EU-alignment. After a period of silence on the UK side, some details ar...
Want to make sense of today’s increasingly complex world of international trade?
Join our webinar on 27 May as Prof @michaelgasiorek.bsky.social and Course Director, Dr @pigunes.bsky.social give an overview of our online course on International Trade Policy universityofsussex.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New research finds that compliance gaps reflect both Cambodia’s regulatory constraints & the CPTPP’s mixed structure of binding and more flexible commitments
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UK trade policy needs greater policy coherence to address two dimensions of inclusivity: employment & gender
Sahana Suraj @sussex.ac.uk @uktpo.org highlights the significant gap between policy goals & action, which is further worsened by the absence of detailed trade data citp.ac.uk/publications...
Congratulations to Priyadarshini Venkatesh for receiving the L. Alan Winters Early Career Researcher Award for the paper on "Straining the Triangle: Multilateralized Regionalism and the Compliance Trilemma in International Trade".
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This I think is a smart blog from @uktpo.org @emilylydgate.bsky.social on how a better domestic process for handling regulatory alignment (or not) with the EU will increase the legitimacy of the decisions taken. Unfortunately goes against Whitehall secrecy instincts.
www.uktpo.org/2026/04/17/h...
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Ahead of tomorrow's @compassoffice.bsky.social @pef-online.bsky.social, the Progressive Economy Forum is publishing a series of policy papers.
First up, @pholmes8.bsky.social and Sahana Suraj on re-opening the Brexit debate and resetting EU relations.
progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
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The UK and EU announced in May 2025 that they would start negotiations to bring aspects of UK food and energy regulation back to EU-alignment. After a period of silence on the UK side, some details ar...
Brexit was presented to the public as a question of “taking back control”.Politically, the campaign was effective partly because it was presented as aconstitutional rupture with minimal disruption to ...
