NatWest Trade Links
What companies should think about when trading overseas: risks, opportunities and everything in-between.
NatWest Trade Links
Latest Episodes
Is tariff confusion a feature of international trade?
Tariffs are supposed to be a cost businesses can calculate. But with US trade policy changing rapidly, the bigger challenge for exporters and importers may be knowing which tariff will actually apply when goods arrive.In this episode of...
Shadow fleets and the new rules of global trade
Global trade is increasingly being shaped by geopolitics rather than economics alone. In this episode of Trade Links, host Tim Phillips is joined by Aastha Gupta and Scott Livingstone to examine two stories that illustrate this shift.Fi...
The big re-shoring puzzle
Since 2020, governments across the US, Europe and the UK have promoted re-shoring, near-shoring and friend-shoring as ways to strengthen supply chains, create jobs and reduce strategic dependence on China. But how much of this shif...
Brexit: 10 years on, what next for the UK-EU relationship?
In this episode of Trade Links, host Tim Phillips is joined by Aastha Gupta and Scott Livingstone to revisit two major trade stories shaping the global economy: 10 years on from Brexit, and one year after the US “Liberation Day” tariff announce...