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Exports Drive UK Chemicals Growth in Early 2018

28.05.2018 - UK trade of chemicals and pharmaceuticals returned to positive territory in February following a year of negative growth, according to the Chemical Industries Association’s (CIA)...

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Brussels Pushes for UK Environment Compliance

12.04.2018 - The European Union is leaning on the government of the UK not to lower its environmental protection standards after quitting the EU in March 2019. Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief...

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Avoid “Hard Brexit,” German Association Says

29.03.2018 - Despite a provisional agreement between the European Council and the British government on a 21-month transition phase for the country’s exit from the EU, the German chemical...

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GSK Sees £70 million Short-term Brexit Cost

23.03.2018 - Britain’s largest pharmaceutical producer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has estimated that its costs related to Brexit, the country’s leaving the EU, could run as high as £70 million over...

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CIA and Cefic Urge UK-EU Partnerships post-Brexit

20.03.2018 - As the UK agrees terms with the EU on Brexit’s transition period, the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has welcomed the confirmation that access to each other’s markets will...

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Making Brexit Work for the Chemical Industry

05.03.2018 - A strong chemical manufacturing sector is at the heart of every successful economy. In the UK, the sector contributes £18 billion per year to the economy, employs 500,000 people...

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German Chemicals Confident but Cautious

11.12.2017 - As the end of 2017 nears, Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry is in a positive mood, thanks in particular to a buoyant performance by its main customers in Europe, but...

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UK Life Science Boom despite Brexit?

05.12.2017 - As a UK Parliament-select committee prepared for a public evidence session on Dec. 5, examining scenarios for trading arrangements with the UK post-Brexit, reports were circulating...