Trade

No matter how loudly we call for a return to the customs union and the single market, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are not going to listen

His previous attempt to start a trade war with China only rebounded on America. This time round, might the US president try to cut a deal?

Joining in with Europe’s retaliation over steel import taxes would be self-defeating - but there’s a risk involved

The new president presents us with a huge opportunity. As the US becomes more volatile and unwelcoming, Britain, and Europe could well benefit

An entitled, deluded president risks setting off a chain reaction of global financial devastation

Trump is already doing colossal damage to the US and sending his allies into a spin. Can Europe and China deal with America’s wild political volatility?

The protectionist president’s economic illiteracy and historical ignorance threatens a global trade war that no one can win

On defence, trade and tech, Europe is bracing itself for four years of threats and chaos

Voters believe our economic future lies with the EU rather than with president Trump

A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help

Britain’s choice in a Trump trade war is a no-brainer: we must rejoin the single market and customs union, or we’re in deep trouble

Keir Starmer finds himself caught between the populist tyrant and a politically weakened continent. Which way should he go?

No, things wouldn’t have gone better if the Tories had prioritised Commonwealth trade

Welcome to the Sevington Inland Border Facility, the Brexiteers’ gift to Britain

As Britain sanctions Chinese cyberattackers, Europe starts to break with Xi’s pet funding project

Brexit supporters claim Germany’s crisis proves we were right to leave the EU. That’s puerile, illogical stuff

Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops

The row over divergence from EU standards has exposed the myth of “Brexit freedoms”

Animal welfare, Ireland and the US car industry meant the Brexiteers' Stateside ambitions were destined to be thwarted

The trade secretary's post-Brexit trade deals do plenty for her profile, but very little for the British economy

Nearly three-quarters of UK firms say leaving the EU has affected them “very negatively”

Britain’s efforts to sign a free trade deal with India have slipped again after another deadline passed

No, renegotiating with the EU won’t bring a swift end to red tape – and Labour should not pretend it will

The government’s gaslighting goes on in a desperate search for good news

The government has quietly admitted Singapore-on-Thames is dead

The island nation in the north Atlantic has a bone to pick with the EU

China is trying to re-shape globalisation to its own ends. What does Beijing want – and what does it need?

Joining the CPTPP trading bloc will contribute less than 0.1 per cent to GDP. But there is a point to membership

The business secretary told people not to “keep talking about a vote from seven years ago” as she trumpeted a new trade deal

Linking up with Indo-Pacific countries won’t live up to the Brexiteers’ wild claims

The government hail it as “momentous” - it’s just a simple memo with no extra money or cut in tariffs

New rules and standards on EU trade will make the first set of Brexit measures pale into insignificance.