Report

Trading blows

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation asks how should Britain buy and sell in a turbulent world?

Recently the UK has faced tough times in trade, juggling twin shocks of Brexit and Covid. While service exports have stayed strong, goods trade has struggled. With a possible further disruption to goods trade around the corner in the form of universal Trump tariffs, this briefing asks what our economic experience of the first two shocks might teach us about how to handle the next.