Can CETA-plus solve the UK’s services problem?

The UK Trade Policy Observatory is a partnership between the University of Sussex, which has the largest concentration of economic, legal and international relations scholars with trade policy expertise and experience in Britain, and Chatham House. The Observatory provides independent expert comment on, and analysis of, trade policy proposals for the UK as well as training for British policy makers and negotiators through tailored training packages.For more information about the Observatory please see:https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/or follow us on Twitter for regular news and updates:@UK_TPO

UK Trade Policy Observatory

Thursday 22 March 2018, 12 noon to 1pm 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
 
Speakers: Professor L. Alan Winters, Director, UKTPO Director, University of Sussex                 Julia Magntorn, Research Officer in the Ecnomics of Brexit, University of Sussex
Discussant: Christophe Bondy, Special Counsel, Cooley  LLP
Chair: Gemma Tetlow, Economics Correspondent for the Financial Times
 
Overview
In the search for a framework for a future UK-EU trade relationship the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA) has come under the spotlight. To inform the debate surrounding a potential ‘Canada plus’ model for the UK post-Brexit, the UK Trade Policy Observatory’s latest Briefing Paper looks in detail at the services and investment liberalisation that the EU undertook in CETA.
 
We score the EU’s commitments in CETA according to their degree of liberalisation, and aggregate the scores across a wide range of services sectors. This in turn allows a comparison between sectors and helps us to identify the sectors where the UK may want to seek ‘pluses’ in a UK-EU context. Further, we evaluate the extent to which the EU’s commitments in CETA improve on pre-existing regimes by comparing the degree of liberalisation in CETA with the EU’s prior commitments in the GATS. Finally we discuss the extent to which the pluses that the UK may seek are likely to be achievable.

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