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UK Trade Policy Review: An Independent Assessment
This report provides an independent, evidence-based assessment of UK trade policy. It evaluates how well UK trade policies respond to current pressures and serve the UK’s economic interests and broader goals, and identifies where changes are needed to ensure coherence, resilience, and long-term prosperity.
Online Diploma in International Trade Policy
This course is designed to help you understand how government policy, geopolitics, business, and technology impact international trade and learn how to apply conceptual and analytical tools to analyse trade policy. Sign up to join the module 'Trade and Sustainability' starting 26 Jan 2026.
Industrial policy and retaliatory protection under the WTO
Lessons from China.
Competition policy and industrial policy
Is a level playing field a luxury nowadays?
Trade policy animations
Our animated videos help to explain trade policy concepts and their effects.
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International Trade and UK Economic Growth
The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy is the first Centre dedicated to trade policy to be funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Centre is built on the precept that trade policy should be inclusive in both policy formulation and outcome.
Our aim is to build permanent capacity by developing a community of scholars and practitioners with the knowledge, skills and mutual understanding to develop robust trade policy in a changing world.