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Do Ireland and the United Kingdom have a trade alliance similar to NAFTA?
Do Ireland and the United Kingdom have a trade alliance similar to NAFTA or USMCA?
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Reselling and tariffs between China/UK and EU
If a reseller in England imports a widget from China they will pay the UK's China->UK tariff for that good.
If they then sell that widget to a customer in Spain (in the EU), will the Spanish ...
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Is there any plausible reading of the DoT terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol under which they are not self-defeating?
Under the Protocol the UK government is responsible for applying checks on goods entering NI from the rest of the UK to ensure that goods destined for the Republic of Ireland meet EU regulations. This ...
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Has the UK's HMRC begun the process of inspecting arrivals of EU goods?
It was made clear at the start that notwithstanding EU checks on UK movements into the single market, Britain would delay its implementation of checks.
Have they now begun?
If not will it cause yet ...
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Why does the UK want to remove medicines from the scope of the Northern Ireland protocol?
I've read on the BBC that the UK is seeking to renegotiate the NI protocol with the EU (which is part of the Brexit deal). I can understand why the UK sees some of the provisions as burdensome, but I'...
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Are there any countries that the UK now has trade agreements with, that it didn't before it left the EU?
The big rationale touted by those who wanted Britain to leave the EU was that we would be able "to do trade deals around the world".
By virtue of our membership of the EU, thanks to its ...
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Current status of a prospective 2017 EU fining of the UK for allowing undervalued Chinese imports
According to Politico in 2017:
Britain faces a potential €2 billion bill from Brussels after EU investigators found that U.K. authorities turned a blind eye to a massive fraud network that allowed ...
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How big is this customs-clearing fee that packages from the UK to the EU incur? [closed]
The BBC has an article that lots of Germans are apparently refusing to accept packages they ordered from the UK once they are presented with the new customs clearing form/fee.
Since 1 January, lots ...
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The EU-Uk trade deal ratification by national parliaments
What would follow if any of the national parliaments refused to ratify the EU-UK trade agreement?
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To what extent are financial services in this last Brexit deal (trade agreement)?
I've read two somewhat conflicting accounts from the BBC on this. On one hand:
[Boris Johnson] acknowledged he had been forced to give ground on his demands on fishing.
"The EU began with I ...
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Implications of Brexit Political Declaration
There is some debate as to whether or not the UK has a mandatory obligation to apply EU rules in Domestic activites beyond 2020, irrespective of what Brexit (Trade) Deal is negotiated. The Political ...
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What are the benefits of joining CPTPP over conducting FTAs with the individual members?
On June 17th, the UK Government formally announced its intention to pursue membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), following repeated ...
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Is Biden more apt to press for harder terms and/or the renegotiation of the post-Brexit UK–US trade deal if he wins the Presidency?
I was listening to LBC earlier when I noted both this question and the statement on air regarding Brexit policies and Trump. In essence, Trump has clearly come out as a pro-Brexit person and promised '...
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What is preventing the UK and the EU from progressing in the talks on post-Brexit trade?
Speaking on June 5th 2020, at the end of the fourth round of talks on post-Brexit trade, EU Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, to be clear, our lack of progress in this
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Post-Brexit UK-EU trading relationship: Why (not) Canada?
While the UK seems to pushing for an FTA with the EU similar to the one between the EU and Canada (or Japan or South Korea), the EU seems to have said no to this immediately on the grounds of ...
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