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Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Senior visiting research fellow @ Kings College London. I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
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Let’s try this again … First person to claim that aligning food safety rules to make it aside to trade food products between the EU and UK is a “Brexit betrayal” …

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Idea: First person tomorrow to claim that aligning food safety rules to make it easier to trade food products between the EU and UK should be given a pop quiz on the following acronyms: SPS, CHED, BCP, IPAFFS, and BTOM

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Some folk are preemptively getting upset about UK possibly breaching its WTO obligations to accommodate the US. And y’know, it might! But it also might be able to legally justify it … at least to the same extent everyone else has done previously. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/most-favou...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Always watching.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

New Most Favoured Nation with thoughts on the new UK-India and UK-US deals. Also, how I became big on YouTube. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/deals-deal...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

New Most Favoured Nation with thoughts on the new UK-India and UK-US deals. Also, how I became big on YouTube. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/deals-deal...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Just browsing the official White House 'News' section and chuckling at my desk.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Oh ffs can’t we have at least one weekend off

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Ooooo, now we can start properly filling this in: mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

From UK perspective it looks like this deal takes the edge of some existing tariffs (cars, steel) & provides a framework to get a better ride on future (pharma), and it doesn’t appear to have given up very much in return. Also doesn’t appear to cut across EU negotiations (as expected).

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Slightly unclear, but probably actually 12.5%

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

So we’ve learned that the floor for car tariffs is 10%

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

publish. the. deal.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Wonder if we’re going hear the phrase “non-market economy” a lot later today

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Deals deals deals

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Up early to celebrate the imminent UK tariff relief the only way I know how

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Kicking off in 5 …

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Remembered just in time that Parliament’s security folk do not like it when you have a [gym locker] padlock in your bag.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Today has been a bad day for people who don't like seeing me on their TV screens.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Until the rules of origin annex is published, I'm not interested.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The UK already has reciprocal agreements for social security contributions with quite a few countries, btw … www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Yoga instructors FTW

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