On Dec. 31, 2020, the UK will leave the EU single market and customs union. Regardless of any agreement reached with the EU, the end of the Brexit transition period will...
UK chemical exports in the second quarter of this year have steadied but uncertainty looms for the rest of 2020 with risks from both Covid-19 and Brexit, said the...
21.11.2016
- Brexit was predicted by its opponents and even neutral economists to precipitate at best a sharp economic downturn in the UK and at worst a deep recession. So far, four months...
24.11.2017
- In a little over a year, the UK will be withdrawing from the European Union. Yet the future of the country and its chemicals industry is even more uncertain now than it was when a...
29.11.2018
- The UK chemical industry was quick to support a draft UK-European Union Brexit withdrawal agreement when it was published in mid-November. “We have given it a cautious welcome,”...
24.11.2017
- Of the remaining post-Brexit 27 member states of the European Union, Ireland looks likely to suffer the most economically, and also possibly politically, as a result of the UK’s...
With a positive vote of both the European Parliament and the Council at the end of April, the EU has ratified the Trade and Cooperation Agreement establishing the terms...
17.12.2019
- Grabbing hold of a well-worn campaign slogan used by the country’s newly elected prime minister and lobbing the ball back in his court, the UK’s Chemical Industries Association...
12.04.2018
- The European Union is leaning on the government of the UK not to lower its environmental protection standards after quitting the EU in March 2019. Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief...
08.01.2020
- EU member states are now said close to agreeing on implementing a general tax on non-recyclable plastic waste as one means of filling the €15 billion gap that will be left in the...