UK Trade Remedies Director Resigns

Claire Bassett, the United Kingdom’s director of the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate, resigned, according to an April 28 notice from the U.K. Department for International Trade. Bassett also served as the chief executive designate of the Trade Remedies Authority, the U.K. body that will be responsible for investigating unfair trading practices after Brexit. The authority will be led by Simon Walker, the chair designate of the TRA, while it searches for a new chief executive. Bassett will be the new deputy director general of operations at the Independent Office for Police Conduct, according to an April 22 notice.