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Brexit: an opportunity to develop a better import quota system

16 January 2017 Guest blog by Katie Doherty, Policy and Operations Manager at The International Meat Trade Association Though a significant challenge, Brexit presents an opportunity for the UK to devise its own import quota system. The current EU Tariff-rate Quote (TRQ) system is out of date and does not reflect the modern trade. For example, there are many frozen meat quotas that, as technology has developed, would be better suited as chilled meat quotas. Additionally, due to the exceedingly high EU MFN tariffs, it is generally not economically viable to import into the EU unless under a Tariff Rate Quota. […]

By |2025-07-18T14:44:25+01:0016 January 2017|UK - Non EU, UK- EU|1 Comment
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ETSexit? UK would be unwise to leave EU emissions market

16 December 2016 The United Kingdom may opt to leave the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for greenhouse gases. If so, a central plank of UK climate policy will need to be replaced at short notice. The UK is a large importer of emission permits, and meeting its climate policy targets would be much harder and dearer without the EU ETS. The impact on the EU would be limited, although UK permits circulating in the rest of the EU would lose their legal standing between Brexit and 2021. Non-EU countries take part in the EU ETS, and this appears to be the best option for the UK post-Brexit. Richard Tol is Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. […]

By |2016-12-20T10:44:34+00:0020 December 2016|UK- EU|0 Comments
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Brexit, banks and bother

12 October 2016 Guest blog by Phil Molyneux, Dean of the College of Business, Law, Education and Social Sciences and Professor of Banking and Finance at Bangor University. It’s not looking good in the City or anywhere within the UK financial services sector. The sector contributed £66 billion in tax revenues to the UK Exchequer in 2015 – around 11% of total income – so this is potentially a concern for all of us. […]

By |2016-10-12T13:20:00+01:0012 October 2016|UK- EU|0 Comments
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What does an inclusive UK trade policy look like?

5 September 2016 In the face of severe and competing pressures, a UK trade policy that ‘works for everyone’ – to use Prime Minister Theresa May’s phrase – is going to be immensely difficult to achieve, writes Steve McGuire. The legal and political obstacles to the UK’s construction of an independent international trade policy have been well documented. The legal complexities are eye-watering; as my UKTPO colleague Emily Lydgate points out, the relationship between Article 50 and UK trade policy is unclear. Nor does the UK government have enough expertise in the negotiation and implementation of trade rules. […]

By |2016-09-05T13:14:33+01:005 September 2016|UK - Non EU, UK- EU|0 Comments
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