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Die Verteidigung der britischen Standards im Bereich Landwirtschaft in den Post‐Brexit‐Handelsverhandlungen
Author(s) -
Wilkinson Derrick
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eurochoices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1746-692X
pISSN - 1478-0917
DOI - 10.1111/1746-692x.12249
Subject(s) - brexit , negotiation , government (linguistics) , international trade , commercial policy , work (physics) , business , fair trade , agriculture , welfare , public policy , trade barrier , european union , economics , political science , market economy , law , economic growth , mechanical engineering , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology , engineering
Summary After 47 years of membership, the UK has left the EU , and plans to quickly negotiate new trade agreements with the EU , US , Australia, New Zealand and others. This unique challenge has caused legitimate concerns about the UK opening its market to agri‐food products produced to lower standards. Consumers are concerned about the possible loss of valued assurances about how their food is produced, and producers are concerned about losing domestic market share to cheaper imports. Demands by farming leaders and others for legally binding assurances from the government that they will ban imports of foods produced in ways not allowed in the UK , are unrealistic. If British farmers want to defend their high production standards in the impending trade negotiations, they need to up their game, understand the legal constraints within which UK trade policy will develop, and find new and creative solutions. Equally, a great start for the UK 's new trade policy would be for the UK government to provide the leadership needed to better integrate the public's new environmental and animal welfare priorities with the WTO rules. This could also be an area of trade policy that the UK and EU might work together closely to advance.