10th June 2011
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The following is a guest blog by Tony Hughes of UKTI, London Tony Hughes, Director, Focus Innovation for UK Trade and Investment, was in Washington this week and attended an event at the Embassy hosted by UKTI in partnership with creative media companies, Disruptathon and Millennial Media. Tony, one of the speakers at the evening […]
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7th June 2011
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The following is a guest blog by Phil Budden, British Consul General to New England History matters up here in Boston, as I was reminded when the Governor and I hosted a business event at the Massachusetts (MA) State House on Beacon Hill. While I was focussing on our current UK-MA business links, some in […]
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25th May 2011
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The following is a guest blog by Spencer Mahony, HM Consul & UKTI Regional Director for the South East US, British Embassy Washington Any idea what the hottest destination for UK motor sport companies is after Formula 1? Despite the All-American feel, it is actually the multi-billion dollar Nascar racing industry. After my visit to […]
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29th March 2011
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On Tuesday 15 March, Professor Dan Hamilton of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Transatlantic Relations in DC hosted a panel discussion to launch "Europe 2020 – Competitive or Complacent". Professor Hamilton warned that 2020 was the closing window for Europe within which it needed to position itself into a competitive place in an increasingly inter-connected […]
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21st March 2011
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I had the pleasure of going to the Washington International Trade Association discussion about the 2011 Congressional Trade Agenda. It was an opportunity for the DC trade community to hear direct from key Congressional trade staffers what trade issues they thought would be keeping Congress busy this year. It was an off-the-record discussion, so I’ll […]
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14th March 2011
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This is a guest blog from Spencer Mahony, HM Consul & Director South East US at UK Trade and Investment at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. That was the conclusion of Marc Cenedella, Founder & CEO of TheLadders.Com, one of the 10 search engines in the US to have exceeded a turnover greater than $20m. […]
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2nd February 2011
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As governments around the world continue to look for the best way to stimulate sustainable economic recovery, we in the trade policy field offer a simple answer: trade is the biggest stimulus we can give right now. And thanks to the trade liberalisation we’ve witnessed since the last big, multilateral trade agreement was reached in […]
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12th October 2010
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As far as transatlantic competitions go, last week was a great one for Europe and the UK. On Monday, Graeme McDowell from Northern Ireland sunk a crucial birdie at the 16th hole of Wales’ Celtic Manor course, which ultimately clinched The Ryder Cup for Europe. To crown it all, the winning European Team was captained […]
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22nd September 2010
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Whisky is the UK’s top agriculture export – £3.2bn-worth of whisky flowed out of the UK in 2008, accounting for just under a quarter of the UK’s agriculture exports (see Agriculture in the UK 2009). And the US was the top export market, sipping £421m worth of the stuff in 2009, a whopping 13% increase […]
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