News from BritishAmerican Business
British-American Business Council Trade & Investment Update – April 2018 On Friday, 27 April, BABC released the April edition of its monthly Trade and Investment Update newsletter, sent to its membership across 22 chapters spanning the US & UK. This month’s edition featured information on GDPR, including what BABC itself is doing to ensure it…
BritishAmerican Business was delighted this month to be featured in the latest edition of The American, the magazine for American expats and visitors in the UK. Reporting on BAB’s recent successful Transatlantic Growth Awards, the feature highlights the fantastic SMEs that were impressive enough to take home an award for their continued success trading and investing across…
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 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…
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…