Brexit has caused significant economic uncertainty for businesses in the UK."
“脱欧给英国的企业带来了重大的经济不确定性。”
The Brexit deal was finally agreed upon by both the EU and UK negotiators."
“欧盟和英国谈判代表最终就脱欧协议达成一致。”
Many European citizens living in the UK are concerned about their status post-Brexit."
“许多在英国生活的欧洲公民担心脱欧后他们的地位。”
Brexit has led to debates on immigration policies within the UK."
“脱欧引发了英国国内关于移民政策的辩论。”
The Irish border issue remains a contentious point in Brexit negotiations."
“爱尔兰边境问题仍然是脱欧谈判中的争议点。”
Post-Brexit, the UK will need to negotiate new trade deals with countries outside the EU."
“脱欧后，英国将需要与欧盟以外的国家谈判新的贸易协定。”
Brexit supporters argue that it will give the UK more control over its laws and borders."
“脱欧支持者认为这将使英国对法律和边界拥有更多控制权。”
The pound has been fluctuating since the Brexit referendum in 2016."
“自2016年脱欧公投以来，英镑汇率一直在波动。”
Brexit has highlighted divisions within the British political landscape."
“脱欧揭示了英国政治版图内的分歧。”
Businesses are investing less due to the ongoing uncertainties surrounding Brexit."
“由于围绕脱欧的持续不确定性，企业正在减少投资。”
The China-US trade dispute and the Brexit imbroglio are creating a sense of uncertainty among corporates, and Nielsen is seized of the matter.
The reputation of the online giants has not been improved by claims that big data was abused to try to influence the 2016 US presidential election and the UK's Brexit referendum the same year.
"Previously, Enders had warnedxa0that the implications of Brexit cast a shadow over Airbus’s long-term future in the UK, calling the British government’s handling of the issue a “disgrace” and warning that Airbus may leave the UK altogether if a deal cannot be reached for the country’s withdrawal from the European Union before the March 29 deadline.
”However, at the same time as the decision about the A380 was announced, Airbus reported a 29 percent rise in profits for 2018, with a similar figure forecast for the coming year, and Enders struck a more positive note about Brexit, saying “I’m still optimistic that a solution can be found, that the forces of reason will finally prevail. "
European plane maker Airbus has warned it could pull out of the United Kingdom if its ability to compete on the global stage is harmed by a no-deal Brexit.
Enders said it was a "disgrace" that businesses could still not plan for Brexit.
Sony said it would transfer its European HQ from the UK to the Netherlands to avoid disruptions caused by Brexit.
And appliance maker Dyson announced it was moving its headquarters to Singapore, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, although it said the decision had nothing to do with Brexit.
Enders called for a pragmatic withdrawal agreement that allows for an orderly Brexit.
However, aerospace is a long-term business and we could be forced to redirect future investments in the event of a no-deal Brexit and make no mistake, there are plenty of countries out there who would love to build the wings for Airbus aircraft.
"Brexit is threatening to destroy a century of development based on education, research and human capital," he said.
"With the Brexit process continuing in the UK, the importance of the views of British business being carefully reflected here in China is more important than ever," Holt said.
Some 24 percent of businesses said a no-deal Brexit would have a negative impact, with 21 percent reporting a positive impact and 55 percent anticipating no impact on business.
The UK is set to leave the EU at the end of March 2019, but the British Parliament has yet to vote on the Brexit deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May and the leaders of the 27 other EU member states.
In a policy paper issued on Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry said it hoped for an efficient resolution as Brexit nears.
"China hopes to see Brexit proceed in an orderly fashion and stands ready to advance China-EU and China-UK relations in parallel," the ministry said.
"I think it will be even more important after Brexit that the UK remains open and engaged globally.
"I believe the UK needs to look at the bigger picture, especially with the uncertainty around Brexit next March.
Brands hope CIIE can help attract interest amid Brexit uncertaintiesCompanies in the United Kingdom have embraced the inaugural China International Import Expo in an effort to hedge against uncertainties as the country prepares to leave the European Union, industry insiders say.
One driver is the UK's imminent departure from the EU, the so-called Brexit, which has prompted businesses to look further afield for global trade opportunities, according to Ed Ratcliffe, head of research and advisory at Asia House, a think tank in London.
"Brexit creates uncertainty both in terms of trade relations and market access to the EU trading bloc, where a lot of business is being done," he said.
"These uncertain times for car workers have been compounded by the government's confused approach to diesel and botched handling of Brexit," said Des Quinn, Unite's national officer.
The WSTA said the prospect of Brexit makes it important for Britain to build ties with countries outside the European Union.
The WSTA said the prospect of Brexit means it wants to build ties with other countries outside the European Union.
“We were intending to develop at one point, but with a scheme of that size, especially with Brexit and uncertainty, we eventually decided to sell,” Fitzpatrick said.
"While Brexit creates some uncertainty, it may also allow a deeper and closer economic relationship between China and the UK, without the restrictions of the European Union and especially since the UK has been one of the leading supporters of granting China market economy status," Yu said.
According to Savills data, commercial property markets have largely stabilized after the Brexit referendum in June 2016.
Chinese investors have taken a shine to London offices, where the property market tends to be volatile; but other cities in the UK are less volatile as they are less exposed to the impact of Brexit.
"I was once asked by a Chinese colleague if our businesses would be dragged down by the gloomy outlook of the European Union following Brexit.
In addition, it said that geoeconomic fragmentation, including developments stemming from Brexit, ongoing US-China trade disputes and conflict in Ukraine, has also contributed to the weaker outlook, as has a slower expected pace of supply-enhancing reforms.
Since 2016, Donald Trump's election as US president, Brexit, and the China-US trade tensions are all warning signs of a globalized system that is increasingly difficult to sustain.
Experts said that after Brexit, the UK government's global strategy will offer opportunities for better cooperation with countries beyond Europe.
In the UK, the Brexit vote in 2016 marked a turning point in Britain's relations with the outside world and sowed domestic division.
"Slowing economic growth, trade wars, geopolitical tensions and social unrest, plus continuing uncertainty over Brexit all came together to create a tougher than anticipated business environment for airlines," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's director general and CEO.
Despite ongoing US-China trade frictions and Brexit uncertainties, the US and the UK ranked top and third respectively in terms of sentiment, with countries and regions related to the Belt and Road Initiative taking the second position, according to the Cushman & Wakefield survey.
They said BT's latest milestone highlights the significance of UK-China telecom sector collaboration, especially as the United Kingdom battles to remain globally competitive in the light of Brexit uncertainties.
"Gold's safe-haven asset status remains strong due to global geopolitical and macroeconomic challenges, such as the trade conflict, Brexit, and inflationary pressure.
Demand was ravaged by chronic coronavirus fallout and Brexit uncertainty, industry data showed.
The SMMT welcomed Britain's last-gasp Brexit trade agreement that was clinched just before the nation's departure from the EU's single market and customs union on December 31.
Britain's car industry, which is largely foreign-owned, had long warned that a chaotic no-deal Brexit would ramp up costs, eat into profits and hurt supply chains.
Nissan also welcomed Britain's Brexit deal.
The Brexit deal does resolve some of the uncertainty over trading relationships with the EU, for which there was much mutual interest.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to use Brexit as an opportunity to improve trade with the United States, to which 19 percent of exported cars are sent.
Affected by negative factors such as decline in the auto market, trade disputes and Brexit, a new round of "layoff" has spread to Daimler, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, VW and other major automakers globally.
Britain's auto industry, seeking to swerve Brexit obstacles, is accelerating toward electrification as consumers shun high-polluting diesels, driven by rapid advances in technology and greener government policy.
Japanese carmaker Honda will close its British car plant in 2021 with the loss of about 3,500 jobs, bringing a blow to the country's car industry as Brexit approaches, according to a statement published Tuesday by Honda website.
A no-deal Brexit could affect more than 100,000 jobs in Germany and regions of the country with Volkswagen and BMW factories among those worst hit, according to economists at a prominent nonprofit institute.
Still, "a hard Brexit would disrupt global value creation chains", Holtemoeller said in a statement with the report.
The SMMT said it expected car production to fall another 3 percent in 2019, assuming an orderly Brexit with a transition period to minimize economic disruption.
Britain's housing market has slowed since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 when Nationwide estimated house prices were rising by around 5 percent a year.
That has led many advocates of Brexit to dismiss warnings as a "Project Fear" campaign that a no-deal scenario could cause severe disruptions to food and medical supplies, transportation and manufacturing.
But the SMMT's Hawes pinned the fall in automotive industry investment firmly on the uncertainties surrounding Brexit.
"There are a number of factors behind this grim news – the main ones being challenging market conditions for carmakers generally, a lack of a coherent industrial strategy from the UK government and the uncertainty created by Brexit.
"Steven Armstrong, the head of Ford in Europe, said the job losses were not a result of Brexit, but rather formed part of an overall strategy to reduce "surplus labor" and to "address parts of the business that are not profitable".
However, he said that Brexit could impact the company if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal in place.
"If Brexit goes in the wrong direction and we have a hard Brexit, we would need to look again about what we could do to mitigate the impact of that," he added.
JLR chief executive Ralf Speth has been outspoken about his concerns over Brexit, saying that no-deal could lead to thousands of job losses across the industry.
On Monday, former UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who spearheaded the campaign to leave the EU, downplayed the impact of Brexit on the UK's car industry.
Speth said a "bad Brexit deal" could force the carmaker, owned by the Indian-based Tata Motors since 2008, out of Britain and put 40,000 jobs at risk.
"Government ministers' trashing of diesel, despite the UK making some of the cleanest engines in the world, combined with their shambolic handling of Brexit is damaging the UK car industry and the supply chain," he said.
“Brexit creates difficulty for the UK to lead in e-mobility,” said Julia Poliscanova, manager of clean vehicles at the European Federation for Transport and Environment, which is also called the EFT&E.
Speth said a “bad Brexit deal” could force the carmaker out of Britain and put 40,000 jobs at risk.
“Electrification and connectivity offer significant economic and productivity opportunities — get Brexit wrong and British people, businesses, and broader society lose the chance to lead in smart mobility,” Speth said.
Prior to the Brexit vote, the UK looked well-placed to compete in electric vehicle production.
LONDON－The British automotive industry faces a threat to investment and to exports if there is a Brexit agreement which fails to produce a favorable outcome on trade and tariffs, according to an industry body.
伦敦——据一家行业机构称，如果英国脱欧协议未能在贸易和关税方面达成有利结果，那么英国汽车工业将面临投资和出口受威胁的风险。
"There is no Brexit dividend for our industry, particularly in what is an increasingly hostile and protectionist global trading environment," an SMMT spokesperson told Xinhua on Thursday afternoon.
“英国汽车制造商和贸易商协会（SMMT）的一位发言人周四下午对新华社表示：‘对于我们的行业来说，尤其是在当前日益严峻、保护主义盛行的全球贸易环境下，并不存在所谓的脱欧红利。’”
The British government under Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to a white paper on Brexit dealing with Britain's wishes for trade access in a key Cabinet summit on Friday at the prime minister's country residence Chequers House.
在周五于首相乡村官邸契克斯别墅举行的关键内阁峰会上，英国首相特蕾莎·梅领导的英国政府同意了一份关于英国脱欧的白皮书，该白皮书涉及英国对于贸易准入的愿望。
Cabinet ministers discussed how much access Britain requires to the EU customs union and the tariff-free single market after Brexit.
内阁部长们讨论了英国在脱欧后对欧盟关税同盟及无关税单一市场的准入需求程度。
Britain currently has frictionless and tariff-free trade with other EU member nations, but could face trading with the remaining EU member states on World Trade Organization tariff rates if there is no Brexit deal or possibly on reduced tariffs if a deal is reached with the EU.
目前，英国与其他欧盟成员国之间享有无摩擦且零关税的贸易关系。但如果无法达成脱欧协议，英国可能会面临以世界贸易组织的关税税率与剩余的欧盟成员国进行贸易；而如果能与欧盟达成协议，则有可能会降低相关关税。
"Earlier on Thursday the largest British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover issued a bleak warning on the dangers of an unsatisfactory Brexit trade deal.
"A bad Brexit deal would cost JLR more than 1.2 billion pounds ($1.59 billion) profit each year," He added.
With auto parts passing through as many as 15 countries before a car is completed, a Brexit agreement that results in new tariffs that increase the cost of Ford vehicles for consumers is no small problem.
Some of those vans then cross back across the UK border for a third time for sale - and theoretically each time it crosses, it could be taxed after Brexit.
British carmakers, and many other industries, want the government to negotiate an agreement that preserves free trade with the EU's single market after Brexit.
The auto industry has called on the UK government to outline its Brexit plans and ensure barrier free trade with the EU.
With Brexit, Britain will also be looking for engineering and technology partners around the world and China is such a big market and manufacturing center which couldn't be ignored, according to Chandler.
In an interview with Financial Times, Victor Zhang also stressed that Britain's economy would suffer billions of pounds of lost growth as it tried to recover from "the challenge of Brexit and now COVID-19" if Huawei's equipment was removed from the country's 5G networks and fixed line fiber networks.
Against the stronger US dollar, the euro dropped 6.6 percent from March 10 to Thursday, and the pound sterling weakened by 12.5 percent toward its lowest level since 1985, surpassing the lows seen during the historic Brexit vote in June 2016.
In early 2020, overseas uncertainties were reduced with the signing of the phase-one trade deal between the US and China as well as the success of Brexit," said the EY leader.
According to the report, the slowing world economic growth, the fallouts of the trade frictions between China and the United States, debt risks in some major economies, the rapid development of fintech that poses challenges to financial regulators, and the uncertainties surrounding Brexit have combined to bring risks from the external front that may affect China's financial stability.
"Factors including the global trade situation, monetary policies of major countries and prospects concerning Brexit led to a drop in the US dollar index and lower bond prices of major countries," said Wang.
Volatility in global capital markets, including Hong Kong, has risen in the first three quarters of the year because of the China-US trade conflict, Brexit and other geopolitical uncertainties.
"(The economic situation of) China has been stable with solid development foundation, which is the biggest reason why global capital favors the country," Huang said, citing the dampening effect of Brexit on the eurozone and emerging market debt issues such as those in Argentina and Turkey on global investors' confidence in these economies.
Such failures shed light on how difficult the marriage between stock exchanges could be, especially when the deal comes at a tricky time when a series of protests in Hong Kong, escalation of Sino-US trade tensions and the Brexit gridlock buffet the two cities with "unprecedented uncertainties and challenges", Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report.
"As long as the appetite for risk is dented by global growth fears, trade tensions and uncertainties over Brexit, among many other geopolitical risk factors, gold will remain in the driving seat," Otunuga said.
Will the eventual implementation of Brexit later in 2019 contain risks for global markets?
An IPO by logistics property developer ESR Cayman was delayed in Hong Kong earlier this month due to the uncertain climate caused by the Sino-US trade dispute and Brexit.
In May, escalating global trade tensions and uncertainty surrounding Brexit boosted the market sentiment of risk aversion, pushing up the dollar index as well as global bond indexes, she said on Monday.
Uncertainty in Sino-US trade negotiations and Brexit affected worldwide initial public offering activities during the first quarter, the report said.
"We can learn from the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID) scheme and some financial arrangements in the United Kingdom's Brexit plan," said Xing, who also suggested the development of blockchain technology and cross-boundary third-party payments to explore new methods of financial connection.
The 2019 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum commenced in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, with more than 3,000 global leaders in the fields of politics, business, international organizations, and academia gathering to discuss issues such as economic growth, trade wars, and Brexit.
"We still need to see how the Brexit process proceeds," the source said.
Domestically, London is fighting to maintain its status as a leading global banking center amid the Brexit uncertainties, and internationally the UK is defending its inherent values of market openness at a time of trade frictions and protectionist pressures.
In recent years, the City of London has actively branded itself as the BRI's finance hub, in an effort to secure deals and hedge against the pessimism of Brexit uncertainties.
In Europe, fears about a no-deal Brexit and a growing rift over Italy's budget put pressure on the euro and the pound.
The pound rose sharply following reports that Britain and the European Union had reached a deal to give UK financial services companies access to the bloc after Brexit.
European shares hit their lowest level since December 2016 in early trading after as trade wars, rising US yields, Brexit and the Italy/EU budget row continued to weigh on markets, before recovering modestly to end the day up 0.1 percent.
After the trip, Hunt will visit France and Austria, meeting their foreign ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Karin Kneissl, respectively, and trying to gain support for Brexit proposals set out by Prime Minister Theresa May, according to Reuters.
It is also “a vote of confidence for the City of London, against the backdrop of Brexit, and epitomizes the sound progress of China-UK financial cooperation”, Liu said in a message read out at the London branch opening ceremony.
It was speculated earlier that Brexit might delay the launch of the trading link as Chinese regulators would worry about the economic and political uncertainties.