UK-US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’

TY - JOUR

T1 - UK-US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’

AU - Heron, Tony

AU - Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Political Quarterly Publishing Co (PQPC).

PY - 2021/12/1

Y1 - 2021/12/1

N2 - A UK-US free trade agreement has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post-Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Prime Minister's admission that this was not going to be realised any time soon may have surprised media pundits, but it merely confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since the referendum: that a free trade agreement with the US was a long shot. Taken together with the short-lived suggestion of the UK joining the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), we argue that it is the desire to perform ‘independence’ from the European Union rather than policy content which is driving the UK's trade strategy.

AB - A UK-US free trade agreement has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post-Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Prime Minister's admission that this was not going to be realised any time soon may have surprised media pundits, but it merely confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since the referendum: that a free trade agreement with the US was a long shot. Taken together with the short-lived suggestion of the UK joining the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), we argue that it is the desire to perform ‘independence’ from the European Union rather than policy content which is driving the UK's trade strategy.

KW - Brexit

KW - trade policy

KW - United States

KW - USMCA

KW - ‘Global Britain’

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118565806&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/1467-923X.13075

DO - 10.1111/1467-923X.13075

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85118565806

SN - 0032-3179

VL - 92

SP - 732

EP - 736

JO - Political Quarterly

JF - Political Quarterly

IS - 4

ER -