Future of the EU and UK trade relations in light of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement : contextualizing Brexit and trade

This paper aims to contextualize Brexit from the perspective of international trade law. It first discusses the history of Brexit from a general and trade perspective. This is followed by an overview of the negotiations also from an international trade perspective. It then proceeds to examine the general context and content of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and evaluate it in comparison to the pre-Brexit trade situation. In the conclusion the author briefly discusses existing trade disputes between the EU and the UK, before attempting to conjecture on the future of the trade relationship