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Peter Ungphakorn
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The Swiss-UK trade agreement has now been presented to the British parliament and is published here

H/T @BBCChrisMorris

gov.uk/government/pub…
The text is also available in English and German on the Swiss government website. For now, the French and Italian versions of these pages link to the German version (language links are top right of the pages)

English: seco.admin.ch/seco/en/home/A…

German: seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/A…
These paragraphs in the UK explanatory memo sum up the situation.

Note it “will take effect when the EU-Switzerland agreements cease to apply to the UK.”

With the Withdrawal Agreement: end of the Implementation Period.

Without: on 29 March 2019

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Screenshot of paragraphs 4 and 5 from Screenshot of the next 3 paragraphs down to
Finally, an annex to the explanatory memo lists eight EU-Switzerland agreements that are being "transitioned" (ie rolled over where possible) into the UK-Switzerland agreement

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Screenshot of the first page of the annex, items a to eScreenshot of the rest of the annex: rest of item e to item h
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It's not easy to follow everything that's happening even in the bilateral trade relationship between the UK and Switzerland.

Also published yesterday is this memorandum of understanding, a non-binding intention to continue talks on unresolved issues

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Screenshot of main part of memorandum of understanding, paragraphs 1 to 5 (beginning)Screenshot of main part of memorandum of understanding, paragraphs 5 (ending) to 7 and signatories
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Peter Ungphakorn
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Some odd and something right in this👇🏽 tweet from @TiceRichard to @IanDunt.

What's odd:

1. that "WTO bosses in Geneva" (@WTODGAZEVEDO and his management team?) would intervene by advocating any particular policy. Much more likely...

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Much more likely they would react to any WTO-legal idea (interim/indefinite, FTA/CU) by saying "yes of course you can do that". They would be keen for the UK to sort out the various issues quickly but wouldn't advocate any particular arrangement.

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2. The WTO is member-driven, so it's not up to the director-general and senior management, but the members. So the real "WTO bosses in Geneva" are the ambassadors. They do what ambassadors do: defend their countries' interests.

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Peter Ungphakorn
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A closer look. The CH-UK trade deal counts as 1 EU trade relationship “rolled over” to the UK.

But it’s an incomplete “roll over”. Full continuity during transition in the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, but less with “no deal” or after the transition.



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I’ve now looked more closely at the text of the Swiss-UK trade agreement released on Feb 20. One of the questions is how the Feb 11 Swiss information sheet👇🏽 for business — with its “deal”/”no deal” distinction — relates to the actual agreement.

2/18

tradebetablog.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/f-info… Screenshot of the first section of the French-language information note
It seems the trade agreement applies if there is no UK-EU deal. If there is one, ie, the Withdrawal Agreement, then that’s the instrument giving continuity.

Specifically, the UK-CH deal applies once the CH-EU agreements “cease to apply”

Text: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

3/18 Screenshot of paragraph 3 of the CH-UK trade agreement
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Peter Ungphakorn
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Finally, finally, the Swiss government pages have two additional documents: a declaration on trilateral rules of origin (aiming to bring the EU in), and an agreement on Liechtenstein

English: seco.admin.ch/seco/en/home/A…

German: seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/A… Screenshot of links to three documents in EnglishScreenshot of links to three documents in German
And the blog post that tries to explain the Swiss-UK deal has been updated to include links to the newly published documents. Its contents are still based on the Swiss information note of February 11

tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/uk-…
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