Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy

50年来，英国首次对其贸易政策拥有“主权”。例如，它现在必须决定如何配置其自由贸易协定，进口食品和数字贸易的法规以及贸易和气候政策。与此同时，收入分配在英国变得高度敏感，政策制定权下放到几个英国实体，世界贸易体系受到数字化和中国增长等一系列紧张局势的困扰。英国政策如何应对这一挑战，以及谁参与制定和审查这些政策，将影响几代人的经济成果，并影响英国社会的各个部分和所有地区。包容性贸易政策中心（CITP）将在知识前沿开展创新的跨学科研究，帮助理解这些挑战和机遇，并为英国提供现代贸易政策做出贡献。CITP不仅在方法上具有国际性，而且旨在通过有针对性的沟通和与广泛的非学术利益相关者的持续参与来实现IMPACT。最重要的是，我们的研究回应了这样一种观点，即贸易政策应该在英国人民和地区的结果中具有包容性，并通过考虑所有受影响者的意见来制定政策。这五个“I”是CITP工作的核心。贸易涉及主权国家之间的交流和协议，因此处于经济学和国际法的界面;这些学科与政治学、国际关系和商业一起构成CITP的核心。CITP的研究分为三个相互关联的主题：1。人员、企业和地点：重点是在英国的四个国家的地点，公司和个人（作为消费者和工人）的贸易（政策）的差异影响。在这一主题中，我们将讨论贸易壁垒的变化如何对生产力、供应链结构、当地劳动力市场和地区产生不同的影响，以及了解这一点如何使贸易政策更加有效和包容。2.数字化和技术变革：讨论了数字化对地理边界的驱动因素和后果，改变了生产和交易的内容，以及如何，在哪里和由谁生产和交易。这里的关键是这如何影响贸易惯例和管理它们的规则，以及技术变革、监管自主权和国际合作之间的相互作用。面对动荡的世界：考虑到贸易体系面临的挑战正在考验支撑开放贸易的合作和信任。CITP处理这些问题以及贸易协定中的监管一致性问题，以及这可能对国内监管产生的影响。它还将密切关注贸易政策制定在英国国家和地方政府之间引起的压力。通过主题运行真正的跨学科，创新方法的发展（包括贸易的经济建模，特别是英国内部贸易），新数据的创建（例如贸易方面的就业机会）、主要持份者及公众参与（公民陪审团），以确定英国作为一个整体从贸易政策中寻求什么，一个创新基金，以鼓励早期的职业研究人员提出新的贸易研究，CITP建立在其成员大学--苏塞克斯大学、诺丁汉大学、斯特拉斯克莱德大学、皇后区大学（贝尔法斯特）、卡迪夫大学、剑桥大学、欧洲大学研究所、伯克利大学、特拉维夫大学和乔治敦大学（美国）--的成熟研究和影响力成功的基础上。每个合作伙伴都为贸易政策研究中心带来了独特和互补的因素，扩大了其研究专长和地理范围，并创造了新的协同作用，以建立一个贸易政策研究的国际英才中心。

For the first time in 50 years the UK has 'sovereignty' over its trade policy. It must now decide, for example, how to configure its free trade agreements, its regulations for imported food and digital trade and its trade and climate policies. Simultaneously, income distribution has become highly sensitive in the UK, policy-making power is devolved over several UK entities and the world trading system is beset by a range of tensions such as digitisation and Chinese growth. How UK policies respond to this, and who is involved in making and scrutinising them, will shape economic outcomes for generations and affect all parts of society and all regions of the UK.The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) will undertake INNOVATIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY research at the frontier of knowledge, to help understand these challenges and opportunities and contribute to providing the UK with a modern trade policy. As well as being INTERNATIONAL in its approach, the CITP is designed to deliver IMPACT through targeted communications and sustained engagement with a wide range of non-academic stakeholders. Above all, our research responds to the view that trade policy should be INCLUSIVE in OUTCOMES for the people and regions of the UK, and in the FORMULATION OF POLICY by considering the views of all those affected. These five "I's" are core to the work of the CITP.Trade involves exchange and agreement between sovereign states and is thus at the interface of economics and international law; these disciplines form the core of the CITP, together with political science, international relations and business. CITP research is organised into three interrelated themes: 1. People, Firms and Places: focusses on the differential impact of trade (policy) across locations, firms and individuals (as consumers and workers) in the four nations of the UK. In this theme we will address how changes in trade barriers have differential impacts on productivity, the structure of supply chains, local labour markets and regions, and how knowledge of this can make trade policy more efficient and inclusive. 2. Digitisation and Technical Change: addresses the drivers and consequences of digitisation on geographical boundaries transforming what is produced and traded, how, where and by whom. Key here is how this impacts on trade practices and the rules governing them and the interaction between technical change, regulatory autonomy and international cooperation.3. Negotiating a Turbulent World: considers the way that challenges to the trading system are testing the cooperation and trust that underpins open trade. CITP addresses these issues as well as regulatory coherence in trade agreements and how this may impact on domestic regulation. It will also focus closely on the stresses that trade policymaking is inducing between national and devolved administrations in the UK. Through the themes run genuine interdisciplinarity, the development of innovative methods (including in the economic modelling of trade, especially intra-UK trade), the creation of new data (e.g. on jobs in trade), major stakeholder and public engagement (citizens' juries) to identify what the UK as a whole seeks from trade policy, an Innovation Fund to encourage earlier career researchers to propose new trade research, and a commitment to communication and engagement to achieve impact and ultimately generate change.The CITP builds on the proven research and impact successes of its component Universities - Sussex, Nottingham, Strathclyde, Queens (Belfast), Cardiff, Cambridge, the European University Institute, Berkeley, Tel Aviv and Georgetown (USA). Each partner brings a distinct and complementary element to the CITP, extending its research expertise and its geographical reach and creating new synergies to establish an international centre of excellence for trade policy research.