EU Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand has put forward plans to solve ongoing trade disputes experienced under the leadership of Donald Trump with incoming US President Joe Biden. The former Vice President will be officially be sworn into the White House following his
The European Parliament has started a two-month review of the agreement, with MEPs vowing to “properly scrutinise” the deal after it was finally concluded on Christmas Eve after months of negotiations. At the first discussion of the EU-UK trade and partnership agreement
After almost a year of negotiations and multiple missed deadlines, Britain and the EU secured a post-Brexit trade deal at the end of December. Announced on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as a “jumbo Canada-style” deal, as he declared:
The UK is trying to broaden its horizons post-Brexit, as International Trade Secretary Liz Truss tries to secure free trade deals with countries around the world. Deals have been struck with a variety of countries, with Vietnam and Turkey two of the
Brussels went soft on Beijing and gave the Chinese Communist Party huge freedoms to pump the country’s state-backed businesses full of cash in a draft EU-China investment pact. The provisions are thin compared to the bloc’s demands in the wrangling over the
The United States-China trade war was launched by Trump on the premise of shielding US jobs, but a study published on Thursday found it actually cost the US up to 245,000 jobs. United States President Donald Trump’s trade war with China has
Donald Trump says he won’t attend Joe Biden’s inauguration Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be ready to add new climate change guarantees to his upcoming negotiations with the US in order to “woo” President-elect Joe Biden. Talks are reportedly in
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will have no hesitation in triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol if “disproportionate” problems arise as a result of the Brexit deal struck in December last year. Mr Johnson made the comments in
The Minister has drawn praise over since taking over the post in July 2019 for speedily rolling over trade deals agreed with the EU. Over the past 18 months she has been tasked with ensuring countries around the world continue to trade
The European Commission today reaffirmed that any shipments from Britain could include new VAT or admin charges under the terms of the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement. A spokesman explained the fees would continue even despite the zero-tariff, zero-quota nature of the