A new report has put the spotlight on how SMEs are driving growth and innovation in digital trade. The report, The Digitalisation of Trade: SMEs Driving Innovation, demonstrates how a number of factors, including the new post-Brexit relationship with the EU, the COVID-19 pandemic and problems with the supply chain […]
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The Government’s new digital export strategy could boost international trade by billions of pounds every year, it has been suggested. The report – published by the Board of Trade – outlines new measures and support that will help traders in the wake of Brexit. Here’s everything you need to know. […]
According to newly published data, the UK has removed or reduced hundreds of trade barriers around the world in the year to April 2021. The Department for International Trade’s (DIT) latest statistics showing a total of 217 trade barriers across 74 countries were removed over the 20-21 financial year. The […]
The Global Britain Investment Fund will encourage overseas investors and international businesses to invest in the UK in the wake of Brexit, it has been announced. The scheme – revealed during the Autumn Budget 2021 – is possible now that the UK has left the European Union. Here’s what you […]
The Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan kicked off International Trade Week this month with a new campaign called “Made in the UK, Sold to the World”. The primary aim of this initiative is to encourage more British businesses to export their goods and services overseas. To get other businesses to participate, […]
The boss of a leading UK business organisation has praised the country’s new trade deal with New Zealand. Mike Cherry, Federation of Small Businesses National Chair, said: “New Zealand has long been a priority market for UK’s small exporters – more than a quarter of which already sell there – […]
The steelmaking trade body in the UK says that the country needs a trade deal for British producers after the USA and EU struck a deal to end a trade war. UK Steel has said the country has been left behind after President Biden signed a deal to end tariffs […]
While world leaders discussed the need for the world to set net-zero carbon targets at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, a major British manufacturer has struck an important deal with an Australian firm to import billions of pounds worth of hydrogen into the UK. Construction equipment maker JCB will be […]
New immigration rules and regulations will be introduced to help fix Britain’s HGV crisis, the Government has announced. It comes after thousands of European HGV drivers left the UK at the end of the Brexit transition period – resulting in significant delays across the country. If you move goods in […]
The UK Government has begun a 14-week consultation calling for the public and business to share their views on a trade deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Contributing almost £22 billion to UK exports and with […]