Pernille Rudlin gives evidence to the UK Trade and Business Commission on UK-Japan trade and business relationships

Pernille Rudlin gave evidence on the impact of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement to the June 6th session of UK Trade and Business Commission.

It was interesting to discover that the trade statistics tracked by Dr Minako Morita-Jaeger, showing a decline in UK exports to Japan since around 2018, with particularly strong decline since 2020 in financial services match our observation that the number of people employed by Japanese companies in the UK has fallen, as have the numbers of Japanese companies and nationals in the UK from around the same time.

 

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