Duncan Edwards, CEO of BritishAmerican Business, was one of four guest panelists participating in a discussion around the current landscape of transatlantic trade and investment between the United States and United Kingdom, one of many panels taking place at the City Week 2018 Conference: “Securing Continuity Against a Backdrop of Global Change.” Speaking to the…
The following is a speech delivered by the Hon Liam Fox, UK Secretary of State for Trade, before the Commonwealth Business Forum on the UK’s ambition to become the foremost global champion of free trade. Hello and let me add my welcome to London, and to the Commonwealth Business Forum. It is great to see so…
The future of cities is now; and the people powering that future live and work in cities, bringing their energy and ideas to bear on the unique challenges and opportunities of urban life. This year, we are proud to announce a partnership with Smart Cities New York (May 8-10,NY), where a diverse global community of…
Read a commentary on opportunities and challenges that may impact the US’ trade policy when the UK formally departs from the EU, by Emanuel Adam, Executive Director, BAB London and BAB Director of Policy & Trade
On 4th April, the UK parliamentary ‘Exiting the EU Committee’ (for clarity, not a UK government body) published a report based on its inquiry into the Article 50 negotiations through which the UK will leave the EU. The report has 181 paragraphs of detail which you can read here if you would like to. But…
I am happy to be sending you what is the first in a regular series of short quarterly updates on the work of BritishAmerican Business which I hope you will find helpful. Policy work Our fundamental purpose as a non-aligned, transatlantic trade association is to support policies and actions that are designed to…
Background of GDPR GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. In January 2012, the European Commission started making plans to reform data protection across the European Union (EU) in order to make Europe more secure for the digital age. Nearly four years later, an agreement was reached on what would be involved and how it would…
BritishAmerican Business Director of Policy and Trade, Emanuel Adam, last week attended a meeting of the newly established US-UK SME Dialogue, held in Washington D.C. Taking place around the 3rd US-UK Trade and Investment Working Group Meeting, Adam said the meeting was convened to explore the future US-UK trade and investment relationship post-Brexit and to…
BritishAmerican Business was pleased to host Liam Fox, UK Secretary of Trade, this past Friday. Just over 100 members and their guests attended the event in which Dr. Fox said that although the US decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum was aimed at preventing China from selling its steal at cheaper prices, it…
BritishAmerican Business (BAB), the leading membership organisation representing transatlantic businesses, has recognised ten micro, small and mid-size SMEs for growing their business across the Atlantic at the inaugural TransAtlantic Growth (TAG) Awards. The winners of the 2018 TAG Awards are: 30 And Under Silver Achievement Award – Daniel Rees, CEO, Ruroc Woman in Business Silver…