{"id":6787,"date":"2022-05-31T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/uktpo\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2022-06-01T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:51:50","slug":"northern-ireland-trade-patterns-and-the-row-over-the-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/uktpo\/2022\/05\/31\/northern-ireland-trade-patterns-and-the-row-over-the-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland trade patterns and the row over the Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"Share this article: <\/em> \"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>\n

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\"\"31 May 2022\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Ruby Acquah and Mattia Di Ubaldo are Fellows of the UK Trade Policy Observatory and Research Fellows in Economics at the University of Sussex Business School<\/em><\/p>\n

Tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) have intensified as the UK Government (henceforth HMG) announced plans<\/a> to introduce legislation that would enable it to disapply parts of the Protocol.\u00a0 The UK has often demanded the re-negotiation of the NIP due to its economic costs, and a too strict application by the EU. Recently, Assembly elections in Northern Ireland escalated the urgency of resolving the issue, as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is currently refusing, as part of its protest against the NIP<\/a>, to participate in the power-sharing executive.<\/p>\n

Given the foregoing, we have examined trade data to shed light on three key issues:<\/p>\n