News from BritishAmerican Business
The Next Four Months Are Critical CEO Update – September 2020 Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business The concept of La Rentrée, the return to work after the summer holidays, is not culturally entrenched in the US and UK as it is in France but nevertheless, there is definitely a renewed sense of energy…
It’s Time To Take Off In the Interest of our Economies, We Must Coordinate and Act Now to Reopen the Transatlantic Corridor By Duncan Edwards, Chief Executive, BritishAmerican Business & Emanuel Adam, Director of Policy & Trade, BritishAmerican Business 24 August 2020 The health and safety of our citizens is the number one priority as…
Transatlantic travel is an essential part of trade and investment; it is time to get it started again. CEO Update – August 2020 Fill out our 1-minute, anonymous survey on transatlantic air travel during COVID-19: click here Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business Approaching five months since the majority of BAB’s members shifted to remote working for…
Wilson Del Socorro Announced as Next BAB Policy Steering Committee Co-Chair Wilson Del Socorro Global Director of Public Affairs Diageo Wilson Del Socorro, Global Director of Public Affairs at Diageo has been selected as the latest co-Chair of the BritishAmerican Business Policy Steering Committee, alongside Denise Peet, Head of Government Affairs UK, Caterpillar. Wilson will be…
BritishAmerican Business Signs Multi-Industry Letter to Secretary Ross Responding to Schrems II BritishAmerican Business has co-signed a multi-industry letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross alongside 29 other trade bodies and associations in response to the European Court of Justice’s decision on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (see BAB CEO Duncan Edwards’ comment here). The…
Duncan Edwards, CEO, BritishAmerican Business Responds to European Court of Justice Decision on Data Transfers 16 July 2020 Contact: Dominic Parker, Communications Manager dparker@babinc.org | 020 7290 9882 | +44 7500 115 352 Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business In response to the news that the European Court of Justice has invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,…
Why BAB is Supporting the Trade Negotiations CEO Update – July 2020 Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business If you believe, like we do here at BAB, that reducing financial and technical barriers to trade and investment is a fundamental driver of growth (and the historic evidence for this is overwhelming) then you will…
A Statement from Duncan Edwards, CEO, BritishAmerican Business on U.S. Visa Suspensions 25 June 2020 Contact: Dominic Parker, Communications Manager dparker@babinc.org | 020 7290 9882 | +44 7500 115 352 Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business In response to the United States extending a freeze on a range of immigration visas including H-1B, H-2B, H-4, J-1,…
BritishAmerican Business Publishes ‘Building on a Solid Foundation – The Business Case for a UK- U.S. Free Trade Agreement.’ 15 June 2020 Contact: Dominic Parker, Communications Manager dparker@babinc.org | 020 7290 9882 | +44 7500 115 352 Click here to download ‘Building on a Solid Foundation’ argues that a comprehensive agreement will allow an already world-leading trade and…
A Statement from Duncan Edwards, CEO, BritishAmerican Business on the Investigation by the United States into Digital Services Taxation 3 June 2020 Contact: Dominic Parker, Communications Manager dparker@babinc.org | 020 7290 9882 | +44 7500 115 352 Duncan Edwards Chief Executive Officer BritishAmerican Business “Since we published our position on the Digital Services Tax, the world has…