Trade UK
Latest news, analysis and comment on trade policy in the U.K.
Rishi Sunak set to invite China to new global AI research body
Britain is aiming to get backing from a broad range of countries for the network ahead of its AI safety summit.
How the City of London sold off European football
Rishi Sunak cools on plans to sign India trade deal in October
The smiling face of Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific: David Cameron
Von der Leyen yields to US protectionism as she heads to Washington
Rishi Sunak’s government quietly revives plan for China trade talks
India waits for Rishi Sunak to pull trigger on UK trade deal
It’s the EU and US against the rest of the world in new steel club
Brussels and Washington prepare to slap 10 to 25 percent tariffs on countries outside their metals club.
Labour wants to decarbonize UK power by 2030. Mission impossible?
Unions, business and green policy experts fear the ‘moon shot’ promise to hit net zero electricity by the end of the decade is doomed to fail.
Russia to lift fuel export ban amid supply fears
Moscow’s self-imposed embargo on diesel sales abroad was designed to tackle shortages at home.
Kemi Badenoch’s Tory conference charm offensive
At the Conservative Party gathering, a Cabinet minister woos business almost as hard as she promotes her own ambitions.
Rishi Sunak slows Mexico and Canada trade talks as he eyes pre-election UK/US pact
UK firms’ access to Canadian and Mexican markets is set to expire in the coming months — and British negotiators were already stretched.
Revealed: Biden and Sunak seek UK/US trade pact before 2024 elections
US proposals leaked to POLITICO cover thorny issues including agriculture, but not market access.
Ukraine accuses Chinese oil and gas firms of sponsoring Russia’s war
Beijing’s state companies stand accused of contributing to the Kremlin’s war chest.
Europe takes climate fight global as carbon border tax goes live
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism enters a trial phase on Sunday.
US government quizzes British firms on Chinese investment links
Move comes amid mounting expectation of curbs on British investment into China.
UK confirms electric vehicle quotas for 2024
Quota comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down several of the U.K.’s short-term environmental targets.
EU and US leaders set for October 20 summit
Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will travel to Washington.
France isolated on post-Brexit electric vehicle tariffs
London has found an ally in Germany in its push for a stay of execution on tariffs due to kick in next January.
UK-India trade deal won’t have binding worker or environment pledges
Angry firms and trade unions fear being undercut and say they were shut out of Britain’s biggest trade talks.
After Brexit, Britain and Europe embrace ever-closer union
Rishi Sunak has fundamentally changed the nature of the post-Brexit relationship.
Donald Trump calls Rishi Sunak ‘smart’ for easing climate targets
Former US president says British leader wouldn’t ‘destroy and bankrupt his nation for fake climate alarmists.’
Keir Starmer says UK Labour doesn’t want to ‘diverge’ from EU if it wins power
‘There’s a lot more common ground than you might think,’ says UK opposition leader.
The EU lost a trade war with China 10 years ago. Has it learned?
Brussels wants to act more decisively on electric vehicles than it did a decade ago, when China split the EU in a fight over solar panels.
Surprise fall in UK inflation eases pressure on Bank of England
Easing food prices bring an end to interest rate hikes in sight — and offer a boost to Conservative government.
Kemi Badenoch cools talk of imminent UK-India trade deal
‘We will get there when we have a deal which is mutually beneficial for India and the UK,’ says British trade secretary.
UK foreign secretary confirms China invite to AI summit
The invite to Beijing has ruffled feathers, especially among the UK’s allies in the G7.
UK won’t stop India trade talks despite row over murder of Sikh leader
Britain is in negotiations over a UK-India trade deal.
I will renegotiate Brexit deal, UK Labour’s Keir Starmer says
Labour leader says he will seek a ‘much better deal’ with the EU at 2025 review.
EU-US steel row in focus ahead of fall trade summit
Brussels and Washington inch toward broad understanding on steel and aluminum to avoid a replay of their 2018-21 trade war.
Keir Starmer: UK needs to ‘wean itself off’ China
‘We need to be absolutely clear about the security of the UK,’ Labour leader says in interview with POLITICO’s new Power Play podcast.
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