Insights

GC and Clearborder have published their third annual State of the Border review of the operation of the UK border. At the centre of the report is the largest annual...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening global health security has emerged as a core theme of multilateral policymaking. COVID-19 has embedded health security – including our ability to...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fired the starting gun on what is likely to be a new era of industrial policy around the green transition and, set alongside the...

The European Commission’s new proposals for EU Customs Union reform are designed to deliver a more coherent and integrated Customs Union. Since the creation of the Customs Union in 1968...

This week on the Global Counsel Podcast, Senior Adviser Tiffany McDonald is joined by Associates Ross Nugent and Ed King to unpack India's growing significance in global trade and diplomatic...

The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence legislation promises far-reaching implications for European and foreign companies operating within the EU. It also represents a sizeable step towards making supply chains...

This week on the podcast, Associate Ross Nugent is joined by Senior Advisers Tiffany McDonald and Ong Kian Ming to discuss the UK's recent decision to join the Comprehensive and...

Despite plenty of wider volatility, UK trade and transit data for 2022 begin to reveal the longer-term implications of both EU exit and the covid pandemic. Global Counsel and ClearBorder...

Discussion of food policy in Brussels is dominated by the Common Agricultural Policy, an instrument created 60 years ago and the frequent subject of fierce renegotiation. A series of reforms...

The US’ Inflation Reduction Act and the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan potentially pose a challenge for mid-size markets like the UK caught between these two fronts of evolving industrial...

The next major point of friction in transatlantic trade relations is emerging around policies to support the domestic electric vehicles industry. The EU has raised grievances around the potential discriminatory...

From 12-17 June, trade ministers gathered in Geneva for the long-awaited 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) and achieved agreement on a series of reforms after several years of deadlock. These...

Global Counsel has supported the UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in producing a new flagship trade and investment strategy for the UK’s food and drink sector. As the UK...

“Onshoring” chip production is a red herring: the UK should double down on its competitive advantage in R&D and IP to create a secure semiconductor supply chain, new report finds...

The last year has seen intellectual property (IP) play an increasingly central role in several policy areas, including the BEIS’s Innovation Strategy and DIT’s post-Brexit trade strategy. The question now...

As most of the world’s major economies learn to live with covid-19, China remains committed to a strategy of suppressing even single-digit caseloads of the virus. Until recently, the policy...

On February 24th, Senior Director Stephen Adams presented to the Trade Policy Research Forum on the ways in which supply chain due diligence by UK and US private equity firms...

What seemed the most extreme of scenarios three weeks ago is now slowly becoming a reality: an embargo against Russian oil exports. Joe Biden, the US president, has announced that...