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TRADE POLICY


Making international standards work for the UK in trade agreements


With the UK currently negotiating trade agreements with countries around the world, Frank Faraday, Senior Trade Policy Adviser at BSI, highlights the critical role of international standards in supporting the interests of UK businesses and consumers – and the need for a strategic approach by the government to how standards are referenced in trade deals


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nternational trade agreements rarely used to make front page news but with the UK’s departure from the EU and the repatriation of trade policy to the UK government, the profi le of trade agreements and what they mean to UK businesses, consumers and other interested parties, has been heightened. New trade agreements are being negotiated with countries including the United States, Australia and New Zealand with negotiations with Canada and Mexico for new bespoke agreements due to begin in the autumn. In addition,


the UK government is looking to start talks soon with India to make good on the government’s Indo-Pacifi c tilt, and the UK has also applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacifi c Partnership (CPTPP). Although BSI is not itself involved in the negotiation of trade agreements, it closely supports and advises the UK government through membership of the Strategic Trade Advisory Group and through participation in the Department of International Trade’s (DIT’s) Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) thematic working group.


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