Post-Brexit UK, the World Trade Organization and agricultural trade

13 December 2016

The International Trade Committee continue their inquiry into UK trade options beyond 2019 with a session focusing on agriculture, Free Trade Agreements and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Witnesses

Tuesday 13 December 2016, Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

At 10.15am

Roderick Abbott, former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organisation and European Commission Directorate-General for Trade
Dr Federico Ortino, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London

At 11.15am

Peter Ungphakorn, former Senior Information Officer, World Trade Organisation Secretariat
Professor Fiona Smith, School of Law, University of Warwick

Purpose

Former senior staff at the WTO will provide insight into the workings of the organisation and the feasibility of some of the suggested post-Brexit UK trading relationships with the EU and the rest of the world.

They will be joined by legal academics who will outline some of the complexities of developing a new relationship with the WTO, in which the UK has hitherto participated as an EU member.

The second panel will have a particular focus on trade in agricultural products.

Further information

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