by David Campbell Bannerman | Feb 1, 2021 | Insight
The latest vaccine procurement calamity, so embarrassing for EU claims of the power of collectivism, has thrown the workings of the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), part of the Withdrawal Agreement (WA), into sharp focus – or rather some of its non-workings. In...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Sep 25, 2020 | Insight
Who wants to rule the world, or running the world’s trading system at least? The race is well underway. Of eight original runners and riders for Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), we are now down to five, one of whom is our very own former...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Sep 10, 2020 | Insight
The tranquillity of Lake Geneva, with its powerful fountain, mellow buildings and unhurried paddle steamers, hardly seems like the place for billion-dollar global legal battles fought between nation states. But the Appellate body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Aug 10, 2020 | News
In the grip of Covid-19, and in the wake of its resultant economic tsunami, British-based businesses might be forgiven for not taking much interest in the UK’s new trade deals – primarily with the EU over our replacement ‘partnership’, but also with a host of...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Jun 17, 2020 | Insight
Today in a rain of activity worthy of a June downpour, Liz Truss and the Department for International Trade have launched negotiations on two very significant free trade agreements with our great and natural friends Australia and New Zealand. The International Trade...
