Tag: CPTPP

Post Brexit

Your Cake and Eating It

BY ALEX STORY A few days ago, after two years of negotiation, the United Kingdom reached an agreement to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). As the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington based think tank writes, with a combined GDP of close to $13.5 trillion, the partnership is “already one of the world’s largest free trade agreements” in … Continue reading Your Cake and Eating It

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brexit, Trade

Why are Remainers so Hostile to the UK Japan FTA?

BY DOUGLAS BULLOCH Hailed by Jean-Claude Juncker as “a message to the world about the future of open and fair trade” and sometimes dubbed the “cheese for cars” deal, the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement was heralded in 2019 as an enormously significant evolution for the future of world trade then descending into confrontation between the US and China. Why then, a mere eighteen months … Continue reading Why are Remainers so Hostile to the UK Japan FTA?

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