UK between Integration and Disintegration: Towards Post-Brexit Trade Policy

Abstract

The paper elaborates on particular challenges and opportunities for the UK, following its experiments with economic integration and disintegration models, including the decision to withdraw from the EU and design its post-Brexit trade policy along with an alternative to membership. In the circumstances, this paper provides analyses on the nature of forthcoming negotiations, the list of issues appearing to be the most sensitive for the UK’s prospective foreign trading relations, based on its current participation in the European single market, as well as agreements Britain would need to strike or renegotiate if it leaves the EU customs union.