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In the first half of 2025, the US and some of its trading partners announced significant changes to import tariffs. This column uses newly designed questions to study the impact of these changes on UK firms and to assess the level of trade uncertainty. On average, the majority of firms expect no material impact on their sales, investment, and prices; those that do expect it to be a relatively small negative impact. Tariffs are a new source of uncertainty for firms, although the level of uncertainty remains lower than for previous shocks such as Brexit, Covid-19, or the Russia-Ukraine war.

Some thoughts on ESRC's role and ambitions

Professor Andy Westwood, Policy Director at The Productivity Institute, has been appointed to the board of Skills England.

Advanced digital technologies show a wide variation in patterns of adoption and utilisation across regions and sectors in the UK.

The UK government should learn from the sorry history of cartels and monopolies

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethic...

Some reflections at the start of ESRC's 60th anniversary year

It has taken 23 years and cost almost £2bn, but the major road will be finished later in 2025.