The Labour Government is on a trade deal spree. After signing a free trade agreement with India, the UK made a pact with the US to remove some of the tariffs on UK car and aerospace exports, and finally a new agreement with the EU was also signed. Significant as these deals are politically, Adam Butlin writes, their economic return will remain rather limited, primarily because of the absence of a significant services deal.

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21 May 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-the-uks-recent-trade-deals-all-have-in-common/

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