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Page 1: Alternative trade approaches

UK – EU FTA

CPTPP 2018

EU- Japan 2019

CETA 2018 NAFTA 1994

WTO 1994

GATT 1947

TRADE AGREEMENT APPROACH• Outcome based approach • Many ways to achieve outcome (i.e. competition in regulation)• Downward pressure on tari�s and regulatory barriers• Increasingly uses deemed equivalence and regulatory recognition, including of underlying product regulation, to facilitate goods and services trade• Liberalising e�ect on rest of world

COMPLETION OF SM

DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

SINGLE MARKET IN SERVICES

SINGLE MARKET IN GOODS

CUSTOMS UNION

IDENTICAL REGULATIONAPPROACH• Process based approach• Structurally agnostic about nature of regulation• Moving toward identical regulations across good and services within a bloc• Upward pressure on tari�s and regulatory barriers from interest groups• Agnostic about e�ect on rest of world

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO FACILITATING GLOBAL TRADE

Shanker Singham, CEO, CompetereFor further information contact: [email protected] https://competere.co.uk/UK-EU-FTA

INCREASING REDUCTION IN TARIFFS AND REGULATORY BARRIERS TO TRADE

INCREASING SCOPE AND DEPTH OFREGULATORY CONVERGENCE

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