New UK Report Analyzes Outbound Investments

The U.K.’s trade agency issued a new report this week about the economic impacts of outbound investments by British firms. The report comes days after the U.S. issued a final rule to create a new regime to block certain outbound investments in China (see 2410280043) and as the EU considers creating its own outbound investment restrictions (see 2407250013). The U.K. report doesn't focus on the possibility of those restrictions but said an “envisaged restrictive regulatory action such as investment screening could alter the effects of UK” outbound investment “in the future.”