UK considered suspending Israel trade agreement last summer: Report

The UK government considered suspending its trade agreement with Israel after the Department for Business and Trade conducted an impact assessment on pausing the arrangement last summer, British broadcaster Sky News reported Thursday, Anadolu reports. The assessment, carried out in August, examined the potential effects of suspending the UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement, a 2019 post-Brexit continuity arrangement under which Israeli imports receive preferential tariff treatment and mostly enter the UK tariff-free. Impact assessments examine issues including the economic and social effects of potential policy changes and are understood to be frequently conducted as part of trade policy. The assessment was also understood to have been carried out as one of the UK’s responses to the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza […]