ABSTRACT
What does independent membership at the WTO mean for the UK? And what does it mean for the EU? This chapter examines the relationship between the UK and EU at the WTO; how they have managed relations thus far and what legal challenges we might expect in the future (both bilaterally and multilaterally). In identifying the core legal questions arising from UK withdrawal from the EU for trade relations at the WTO, this chapter looks to possible areas of cooperation and disagreement for both parties, challenging expectations that they will fall into either a dynamic of confrontation or subservience. Instead, it argues that the experience thus far, and the priorities for the future, set the ground for a relationship built on constructive creative competition.
