Why Britain’s new CPTPP trade deal will not make up for Brexit
- Written by Terence Huw Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Loughborough University
The UK recently announced that it will join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), giving British businesses access to the 11 other members of the Indo-Pacific trade bloc and bringing its combined GDP to £11 trillion.
Some commentators have suggested the deal could make up for...