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It could hardly have been a busier end to 2020 for Europe’s trade negotiators. A post-Brexit agreement with the UK signed just before Christmas ended up being merely an hors d’oeuvre to what the European Commission has described as its ‘most ambitious’ deal ever with a third party – a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with China. At the beginning of 2020, an agreement between the European Union and China …

Yash Dubal, Director at A Y & J Solicitors explains the new UK immigration system and how it relates to business with China: Members and affiliates of CBBC will be all too aware of some of the challenges faced by organisations that do business with China arising from decisions made in Westminster. The ramifications of political decisions can sometimes be problematic. One piece of recent policy that bucks the trend, however, should …

Businesses that sell goods into the UK will need a United Kingdom Conformity Assessment (UKCA) Mark from 1 January 2021 The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on January 31, 2020 and the year-long transition period that allowed continuity of rules and regulations ends on December 31, 2020. This includes the rules surrounding the conformity of marking and assessment of products. Although the UK and EU are attempting to …

Trademark and design rights in the EU are changing, so it’s essential to ensure your IP rights are protected in a changed European Union, write Deborah Maxwell and Cameron Malone-Brown of Potter Clarkson LLP From 31 December 2020, registered EU trademarks (EUTM) and Community design rights (RCD) will no longer be valid in the UK. The UKIPO will create equivalent UK ‘cloned’ rights. All pending and future EUTMs and RCDs …

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt is the Minister for investment jointly at the Department for International Trade, and at the department for Business, energy and industrial strategy. He spoke to CBBC members about his role, his ambitions to support British business in China and the future of trade in a post virus world.  In his role as double minister, Lord Grimstone’s role is, he says, simply to attract investment into …

As China asserts its authority on the world stage, European countries, including the UK, have found themselves to be one of the chief beneficiaries, writes Tom Pattinson As China comes increasingly close to taking the title of world’s largest economy it has been on something of a spending spree over much of the last decade. During the 2008 global recession, some struggling Western companies were up for sale at knock-down …

Tom Pattinson speaks to author and broadcaster Humphrey Hawksley about his new book Asian Waters In the book, you argue that China uses a carrot and stick approach to the South China Sea, which ultimately leads countries or groups to end up supporting China’s actions in the region. Does this mean opposition to China’s militarisation of the South China Sea will only diminish and the region will inevitably fall fully under …

Eve Baker of travel agency Beiwei55 discusses changing Chinese travel habits in a post-Brexit world and the importance of brand Britain Have you seen a rise in the number of Chinese tourists coming to the UK? Since we started in 2014 there has been a notable rise, particularly last year after the Brexit vote when the pound plummeted. Things have calmed down a bit since but the market is still …