#CPTPP

A more serious question. @trussliz speaking to @CommonsIntTrade assumes negotiating to join the CPTPP is going to go ahead. Have the signatories of the CPTPP accepted this yet? Asked what
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Liz Truss wants the UK, EU and US to cooperate on dealing with Chinese subsidies that they think make trade unfair. Well, the UK left the EU's trade remedies system
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Ten days in and it seems the government's post-Brexit economic policy is to ignore reality, priority and choice, and just claim with no evidence that everything is going to be
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1/A thread... of what we were told would never happen:- Boris will never back Brexit- Leave will never win the EU referendum- The economy will not grow after Leave wins
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1/THREAD: We're never going back inI saw lots of posts after Jan 1st saying things along the lines of: "The campaign to Rejoin the EU starts now" etc.Rejoining the EU
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International Trade Secretary Liz Truss is up in front of @CommonsIntTrade now, discussing UK trade policy and negotiations - a thread with some highlights to follow... Interestingly Truss is starting
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I hardly ever disagree with @alanbeattie but here I do have to say a few things on some of the arguments made here.1/ On China divide and conquer: If at
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THREAD: Boris Johnson has a problem named Joe Biden: Democrats are on UK climate leadership and on UK defense spending increase, but in no mood to prioritize the
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Who would have thought that "take back control of food standards from the EU to give it to the US" could possibly have been a problem?https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/1276036707897540608 More on a US
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Two excellent questions at the end of a very sensible thread summarising the post-Brexit UK FP debate. My own take at attempting to offer an answer - ahead of the
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1: Long thread follows … A lot of the commentary on RCEP today, some of which disses it as a minimalist trade deal, misses the point. If you’re American, you
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Far reaching significance of RCEP deal Can the US led West still contain China?While Biden and Western countries are indulging in fantasies of anti-China coalition of democracies, China, the forever
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Inspired by @LatAmINVESTOR - a thread on UK trade with Latin America..."In 2018, the LAC [Latin America and the Caribbean] region accounted for just 1.68% of UK exports, the lowest
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It’s a privilege to have @konotarogomame briefing @ChinaResearchGp on the Security Environnement around Japan. Japan’s Defence Minister looks forward to the deloyment of @HMSQNLZ next year and describes the UK
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Since we're back on freeports, I thought I'd do another quickon them. Here is a list of things that I'd like to see in the UK BEFORE we start setting
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Happy Friday folks!! Here is a bright, shiny new trade deal for you as a gift wrapped #Brexit present from our friends in #Japan Remainers said we couldn't get a
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