Impact assessment

UK-Japan CEPA: final impact assessment

Economic assessment of the impact of the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Japan for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership (the UK-Japan CEPA).

From:
Department for Business and Trade and Department for International Trade
Published
23 October 2020
Last updated
26 February 2021 — See all updates
This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Executive summary for the final impact assessment of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (CEPA)

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Final impact assessment of the agreement between the the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Japan for a comprehensive economic partnership (updated February 2021)

PDF, 2.5 MB, 106 pages

Details

This impact assessment sets out the potential economic impact of the UK-Japan CEPA.

The impact assessment on the UK-Japan CEPA builds upon the preliminary analysis published in the Japan free trade agreement scoping assessment. The purpose of the impact assessment is to provide parliament and the public with information on the potential economic impacts of the agreement.

The impact assessment includes an assessment of impacts on UK’s regions and nations, sectors, employment, consumers and businesses as well as the potential impacts on developing countries.

Updates to this page

Published 23 October 2020
Last updated 26 February 2021 + show all updates

  1. Two statistically minor corrections have been made to pages 10 and 31 of the PDF document, and ‘Annex J: Notice On Corrections’ has been added on page 105. See Annex J for further information.

  2. Two statistically minor corrections have been made to pages 12 and 33 of the pdf document, and ‘Annex J: Notice On Corrections’ has been added on page 105. See Annex J for further information.

  3. First published.

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