Director’s update: Globalised Economy

As we look ahead to Q4 and a busy few months ahead, the CBI’s international team are focused on promoting export led growth, increasing the UK’s focus on services trade, supporting FTA negotiations and Market Access, as well as shaping the future global standards and regulations. We are also ensuring supply chain resilience is underpinned by free trade.

That’s why I am currently in Mexico ahead of the next round of FTA negotiations that are at the end of October, and then off to the Atlantic Future Forum in New York City. We also have a steady drumbeat of activity from our green trade panel at the WTO Public Forum, the progression of the India FTA, the 20^th Party Congress in China, UK International Trade Week, US mid-terms, COP27, the B20 and G20, the Business Europe Council of Presidents and the CBI Annual Conference. Following all these events, we’ll be ke