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Voters promised a Brexit boon will consider bid to keep Nissan and Toyota as ‘ridiculous’, prime minister warned.
Britain could be pressured into bad deal to replace EU's agreement with East Asian country.
The EU's long-held insistence on level playing field provisions continues. How does the UK see its commitments to the Irish Protocol and the Political Declaration and what impact will deviation have on its credibility in other trade talks?
Shortened trade talks will result in ‘flimsy’ deal, former British prime minister says
The EU-Vietnam trade agreement, the “most modern and ambitious agreement ever concluded between the EU and a developing country”, got Parliament’s backing on Wednesday.
What trade deals has the UK done so far?
22/07/2019
As a European Union member, the UK is automatically part of about 40 trade agreements which the EU has with more than 70 countries. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal it would lose these trade deals immediately - worth about 11% of total UK trade.
"We've thrown away 50 trade deals (totalling 70 countries). That sort of thing is what makes us prosperous, greatest in world"
Agreement will gradually eliminate tarrifs on goods and services over next five years
Vietnam and EU sign free trade agreement
01/06/2019
The European Union (EU) and Vietnam on Sunday signed a long-awaited free trade deal that will slash duties on almost all goods, an agreement that pushes back against a rising tide of global protectionism and hailed as a "milestone" by Brussels.
The European Union and Mercosur reached today a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade agreement.
The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations.
Boris Johnson’s Big Lie - Guy Verhofstadt
26/06/2019
While Boris Johnson, the likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, takes his country down a path of diminished trade, the European Union is negotiating one of the largest free-trade agreements in the world. One really has to wonder what the "buccaneering" Brexiteers have to complain about.
The EU has in place, or is negotiating, trade agreements with countries and regions around the world.
An over of the EU's ongoing trade negotiations with various countries and trade blocs. (Updated May 2019.)
The South American customs pact Mercosur and the EU are “very close” to a far-reaching free trade accord, Brazil’s foreign minister said, a deal that would serve as a powerful counterpoint to growing tensions in global trade.
It has been described as “the most ambitious” and progressive trade deal ever signed by the EU, but what does CETA do? The historic agreement was signed into law in September 2017 by the EU and Canada, after years of negotiation and a protest campaign.
The man who used to run the WTO says the EU single market, set up by Margaret Thatcher, is ‘the top league’.
Alarm raised after Nissan decision to halt expansion of Sunderland car plant.
Jonathan Vernon-Smith talks about manufacturing and brexit job losses with Jason J Hunter and Graham 'George' Gudgin.
An A-Z of EU trade agreements from Albania to Zimbabwe.