UK Trade: Background and Future under the TCA and the Windsor Framework

Virginia, along with the southern colonies and the West Indies, became the core of the English plantation system in the 17th century, with the ab- duction and enslaving of African peoples the economic basis for colonialism. [...] Post WWII trade strategy: The UK decisions to join/ leave the EEC/EU The new trade and economic policy pursued by Government did lessen the impact of the Great Depression in the UK. [...] The TCA was signed in December 2020, as the UK had left the EU in January 2020 but had availed of a transition period which allowed a continuation of most of the terms of the UK’s EU membership. [...] Brexit was sold on a promise of a Global Britain and the agreement to join the CPTPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership without the US, is seen as part of a pivot to Asia and the Pacific by the UK. [...] Seeking member- ship in the normal way under Article 49 of the Treaty would leave the UK without any of the opt-outs it negotiated as a member - that unquestionably would mean the UK being obliged to adopt the euro and join the Schengen area.