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Is it time to have the long and boring discussion about the difference between standards and processes & production methods? Trade policy tends to focus on outcomes (standards). So for

There are reasons to think the headline figure could be lower, for example deciding to stop trading with the EU.But also reason to think higher, for example additional cost of

Today's publication of the border operating model an explicit acknowledgement that exiting the EU's customs union and single market will create additional costs for British businesses trading with the EU.

Globally, if a company wants to sell services into a new market it usually does so by setting up an office in that market (mode 3; grey).UK is unusual, in

I’m sure Robbie will be collecting his Nobel Prize for disproving the gravity model of trade in due course.https://twitter.com/RobbieGibb/status/1259027342455967745 The fact that countries tend to trade more with countries that

This is a really excellent piece by @MESandbu arguing, rightly, that globalisation did and does not stop governments taking measures to prepare for a pandemic, and that openness, particularly the

The single market in services is not as developed as the single market in goods, but it very much does exist. If the UK leaves the single market and proceeds