Apply now to secure your place! 🚨 Final spots remaining on our mixed methods short course (online). Deadline: 4 September ⏰

Excited to publish the new edition of my debut novel - professionally edited and produced. Nearly made it to Waterstones, but my publisher went bust after three years of preparation. See My Smile: The story of a reluctant entrepreneur. amzn.eu/d/5y4tSI9

The Windsor Framework trading arrangements are due to start in October. But... what actually are the arrangements and who will benefit (or not)? Read our latest Briefing Paper citp.ac.uk/publications/i…

Great series of posts on #industrial policy. Relevant in general, but particularly for middle income countries like the #Philippines Industrial Policy Is Back Project Syndicate prosyn.org/NOwg9zg

The Windsor Framework arrangements kicked in from yesterday. Read our @centre4itp Briefing Paper to understand what this actually means. citp.ac.uk/publications/i… UKTPO

“Oh please, that speech by Akshata Murty was an ick-fest” — all of this. thetimes.co.uk/article/eae0c8…

Really proud to have co-organised our Pillars_Horizon2020 SPRU Digital Catapult policy workshop. 5 December London. Pls register to attend. Luiss Guido Carli CITP

Jeff Vogt Ruwan Subasinghe Inu Manak EU Trade 🇪🇺 Tom Jenkins Bernd Lange International Labour Organization Franz Christian Ebert Simon Lester Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Tequila Brooks United States Trade Representative WBG Gender Alan Beattie

Think I might have mentioned *a couple of times* that the UK won't be leaving the ECHR because of Northern Ireland (and the US), and looks like politics and the media are starting to realise this... theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Our Budget Report is out today! Listen to our latest podcast to hear us speculate about Tuesday...

A reminder to join us at the UK Trade Policy Forum next week - an event for the UK’s businesses, policy actors, civil society, academics, media – to discuss trade around the theme of Trade, Industrial Strategy and Growth. See programme at citp.ac.uk/uk-trade-polic…

Might be of interest to Thomas Sampson Sophie Hale Emily Fry Jun Du Dennis Novy Michael Gasiorek David Smith Jonathan Portes Swati Dhingra Catherine L Mann Mehreen Khan Sam Fleming (FT) @delphinestr

Excellent. Green industrial policy coupled with a carbon tax is needed given the multiplicity of market failures atriums the issue (to name two, the public good nature of environment protection, the knowledge externality in developing new technologies).

Very thoughtful blog on the challenges and failures leading to the geo politicisation of trade citp.ac.uk/publications/e…

UK trade 3 years after the intro of the TCA. Not quite what was predicted, but neither is that good news. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2024/02/…

Today marks the 2nd day of our Academic Conference at UoNEconomics. Its a pleasure to see trade policy researchers from different disciplines and areas of interest coming together to present, discuss and learn about the latest thinking on trade and trade policy #CITPconf24

The common user charge recently announced (if introduced!) is likely to impact on up to 40B of trade and there are over 40K businesses importing affected products. See: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2024/04/…

1/🧵 #Brexit trade watch Data for the first quarter of 2024 now available Here is the current UK trade performance (based on fresh data from Germany): Jan-Mar 2024 vs Jan-Mar 2019 German exports 🇩🇪 to: +20% total +26% 🇪🇺 EU +37% 🇺🇸 USA +2% 🇨🇳 China -10% 🇬🇧 UK

Should we restrict our trade to countries on whom we can rely & share similar values. What can we do if other nations make life difficult for our traders. Listen to A. Breckenridge Frontier Economics Iana Dreyer @ianadreyer.bsky.social Michael Gasiorek discuss #trade #economicsecurity on.soundcloud.com/BmopApHrtsACaX…

In the run up to the UK election there has been little discussion of international trade policy. Our recent blog discusses this and puts forward some practical policy suggestions for whoever is the future government. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2024/05/… Comments and discussion most welcome!