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The future of UK trade policy after Coronavirus


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This is an audio recording of an IfG Live Event. It was always a challenge for the UK to create a post-Brexit trade strategy that takes down barriers with the wider world while putting up new ones between the UK and its biggest trade partner. Coronavirus has made this more complex.


As countries espouse the virtues of shorter and more local supply chains, the UK’s strategy of distancing itself from its neighbours in favour of distant partners looks ever more anomalous. How will Coronavirus shape the future of international trade, and how can ‘Global Britain’ adapt to a world facing de-globalisation?


To discuss these questions, we’re joined by:


  • Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy
  • Klemens Kober, Director Trade Policy at the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) and former TTIP negotiator
  • Meredith Crowley, International Trade Economist at the University of Cambridge and senior fellow at UK in a Changing Europe
  • Pauline Bastidon, former Head of Global and EU Policy at the Freight Transport Association.


    This event is chaired by Joe Owen, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.



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