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UK trade

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Reeves calls on EU to give greater access for City of London

    Plea comes in first appearance by a UK chancellor at a Euro finance meeting since Brexit

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Brexit
    EU will demand early fish deal in UK reset talks

    Requirement among red lines drawn up by Brussels ahead of 2025 negotiations

    Fishing in the North Sea
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Brexit
    Rachel Reeves to pledge ‘ambitious’ economic partnership with EU

    UK chancellor will promise to fully honour post-Brexit deals in meeting with bloc’s finance ministers

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    UK’s balanced trade with US reduces risk of fresh Trump tariffs, says Reynolds

    Focus on services may mean Britain does not face ire of incoming US president, business secretary tells FT summit

    Jonathan Reynolds speaking to George Parker at the FT Global Boardroom
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    News in-depthBrexit
    UK chemicals sector doubts Starmer ‘reset’ will end Brexit blues

    Businesses say regulatory and customs frictions will barely be eased if Labour government sticks to red lines on EU

    Richard Lock, managing director and COO of Holiferm
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    UK economy
    US trade tariffs would pose risk to economic growth, top BoE official warns

    Clare Lombardelli says frictions would dent productivity as she voices concerns over domestic inflation

    Clare Lombardelli
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    The UK’s high-wire act between the US and Europe

    Post-Brexit Britain faces stark strategic choices with Trump taking office. Walking a line between both powers will be tricky

    Keir Starmer standing at a lectern with just him standing out from the dark background
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Bank of England
    BoE must take ‘gradual approach’ to rate cuts after Budget, Bailey says

    Bank governor tells MPs it will take time to assess the impact of national insurance rise

    Andrew Bailey speaking at the Treasury Committee
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    UK ‘exposed’ in event of global trade war, warns business secretary

    PM Keir Starmer says Britain could maintain ties with both US and EU in potential transatlantic tariff dispute

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK’s Starmer to hold talks with China’s Xi

    Prime minister intent on strengthening relations with Beijing despite tensions over security and human rights

    Xi Jinping
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    How vulnerable is the UK to Trumponomics?

    US president-elect’s plans for tariffs, and the prospect of global trade tensions, risk leaving Britain exposed

    A montage of an image of Donald Trump and a chart
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    The British government’s Trump dilemmas

    Relations with both the US and EU are now called into question

    President Donald Trump inspects an honour guard during a welcome ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London in 2019
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    UK politics
    UK chancellor to hail benefits of free trade amid impending US protectionism

    Rachel Reeves to make direct plea to Donald Trump who has threatened to impose tariffs on all imports into America

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves will not unveil new freeports in Budget, officials admit

    One government figure says Downing Street announcement on Friday was ‘total cock-up with the comms’

    The freeport in Liverpool
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Chancellor to announce five new UK freeports in the Budget

    Labour to expand tax-free import scheme in a bid to boost economic growth across the country

    A container ship at Felixstowe port
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Brexit
    Drug industry says it is not ready for ‘UK only’ labelling scheme

    Generic drug producers warn of ‘severe’ consequences for patients in Northern Ireland ahead of January deadline

    A pharmacist reaches for a box of medicine on a shelf at a chemist in Belfast
  • 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

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