Trade impacts every aspect of daily life.

Most of the time this connection is hidden.

As the UK public becomes more aware of the role that healthy food, fair wages and a thriving planet play in everyone's quality of life, we unwrap the impact that trade has on these relationships, and ask: what kind of country do we want to live in, now and in the future?

 What’s new?

 Trade Unwrapped themes

Read our findings

We make recommendations for appropriate governance structures and principles to support UK trade decisions.

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What next for trade?

#TradeUnwrapped has highlighted the impact that trading relationships have on daily life, and leads us to ask important questions at this crucial time for the UK.

If trade has such potential to change things for better or for worse, do trade deals get the scrutiny they deserve? And, as citizens, how can we influence how the UK trades, in order to improve our quality of life, and shape the kind of country we want to live in?