'Rules of origin' risk tripping up trade post-Brexit

Press quote (The Wall Street Journal)
Sam Lowe
16 May 2018

Rules of origin have been a feature of free-trade accords for decades. The goal, according to Sam Lowe, a trade policy expert at the Centre for European Reform, a London think-tank focused on EU policy, is to prevent one party to a trade agreement passing off cheap imports as homemade, in order to qualify for preferential access to another party’s market.