new barriers to selling into the EU market from 1 January 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\nEven with a deal, services will suffer. Without one, services exporters will face significant barriers as WTO rules are much weaker for services than goods. The hugely important financial services sector will depend on a unilateral EU decision on equivalence, which can be revoked at short notice.<\/p>\n
There is no guarantee that a trade deal will be secured on services given the distance between the negotiating positions of the two sides. Whilst the UK emphasises the need for regulatory autonomy, the EU insists on conditions to remove the risk it perceives of regulatory competition from the UK.<\/p>\n
The services sector, including financial, health, education and road haulage, is highly dependent on EU migrant workers\u00a0 When free movement ends and the government\u2019s new post-migration proposals take effect, there may be\u00a0 staff shortages in sectors which rely on workers who will not meet the salary thresholds proposed within\u00a0 the new scheme.<\/p>\n
The current Covid-19 crisis is also impacting the services sector. As a result, many businesses may may prove unviable. The combined impact of Brexit and Covid will significantly reshape the UK\u2019s economy – regionally and nationally.<\/p>\n
Professor Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe, said: \u201cIt is worrying that the biggest sector in the UK economy \u2013 accounting for more than 80% of it \u2013 has been the subject of so little focus in the UK-EU negotiations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis serves to underline the largely political nature of the Government\u2019s Brexit priorities, focussed on regulatory autonomy rather than any economic implications of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Sarah Hall, senior fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe, said: \u201cGiven the UK\u2019s reliance on services, the government faces a key question in the current negotiations: what economic price, in terms of declining single market access, is it willing to pay to \u2018take back control\u2019 on services regulation? How this question is answered will be critical in shaping UK services post covid and post Brexit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The services sector, proximately being responsible for 80% of the UK economy, which in fact has been largely absent from UK-EU trade negotiations; but in did, reduce access to the EU market will profoundly impact businesses across the country, a new report by academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe finds. The report,\u00a0Services and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3822],"tags":[5058,3468,3998],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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