The UK has now released the ‘Global Tariffs’ it will begin to apply to thousands of imported products after the Brexit process is fully complete. James Kane (Institute for Government), Julia Magntorn Garrett (UK Trade Policy Observatory) and Janyce McGregor (CBC News, Canada) join to make sense of these applied MFN tariffs in light of British domestic political economy and the UK’s ongoing trade agreement negotiations with the European Union, Canada and other countries.

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• Julia Magntorn Garrett and Michael Gasiorek. 2020. Reflections on the UK Global Tariff: good in principle, but perhaps not for relations with the EU, UK Trade Policy Observatory, 21 May.