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Great to catch up with the new Conservative MP for Hartlepool @Jill4Hartlepool. #welcome
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This week I will kick off the formal process of securing new trade deals with Canada and Mexico 🇨🇦 🇲🇽
We will build on our existing FTAs, securing more access for 🇬🇧 goods, services and digital and pave the way to #CPTPP
Read more in @Daily_Express👇
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Great to see our brilliant and recently re-elected Tees Valley mayor @BenHouchen and @GerryGrimstone.
We discussed how we’ll deliver more investment to Teesside and get more local firms exporting around the world 🇬🇧🌎
Global Britain = local jobs
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We are working on a new generation of 🇬🇧 shaped trade deals
That’s why I am asking businesses what they want from new Mexico and Canada deals 🇬🇧🇲🇽🇨🇦
Trade with these countries is already worth £27.9bn – now is the time to boost it
Trade = growth = jobs
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🇬🇧🇨🇦 Talking trade with Canadian High Commissioner @RalphGoodale.
Today I launch our call for input, asking UK businesses to help shape our trade deal with 🇨🇦
Our economies are both in the world’s top 10, our trading relationship = £22.8bn.
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By 2050, Mexico is forecast to be the world’s 7th largest economy.
🇬🇧🇲🇽 Great to meet @josefagbom today as we ask UK businesses to help shape a next-generation trade deal & build on our £5.1bn trade relationship.
Have your say: gov.uk/government/new…
Trade = jobs
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🇬🇧🇦🇺 A trade deal with our great friends Australia will be good for the UK 👇
thesun.co.uk/news/15038954/…
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Today we launch our public consultation for a trade deal with India 🇬🇧🇮🇳
This is a chance for business and the public to shape a deal that will:
✅ Deliver jobs
✅ Slash tariffs on goods like cars & whisky
✅ Boost industries like science & tech
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Our new national flagship will help us strike trade and investment deals and promote British interests around the world. 🚢 🇬🇧 🌎
It will help ensure all parts of 🇬🇧 benefit from #GlobalBritain.
More 👇
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Great to see a huge new investment from family favourite @KraftHeinzCo that will bring jobs and growth to Wigan.
👉 £140 million investment in North West
👉 Up to 50 new jobs
👉 British favourites like ketchup made in 🇬🇧 once again
Trade = Jobs 🌎 🇬🇧
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In sunny Batley & Spen supporting our fantastic candidate @Stephenson_Ryan with Mark Fletcher and our local #TeamTory. #YorkshireSun #ByElection ☀️
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UPDATE: WTO DG @NOIweala has officially approved the UK’s updated Government Procurement Agreement schedules.
The @wto GPA gives UK firms access to £1.3tn worth of government procurement contracts around the world. 🌎🇬🇧 👇
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Excellent news that #CPTPP nations have agreed 🇬🇧 accession process will commence to join this dynamic free trade area of 11 countries.
We'll present our plans to Parliament in the coming weeks before starting negotiations.👇
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CPTTP membership is a huge opportunity for the UK 🇬🇧
It will:
👉bring us closer to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies
👉support jobs across the UK
👉help us build back a better global trading system
Trade = Jobs🌍🇬🇧👇
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NEW: We have a new trade deal with Norway, Iceland & Liechtenstein covering £21bn of trade 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 🇬🇧
✅ It’s their most advanced digital deal
✅ It gives 🇬🇧 farmers more access
✅ It supports 18,000 fish processing jobs in Scotland & Northern England👇
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More in @MailOnline on how a 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 trade deal would benefit industries across the UK 👇
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My piece in @australian on why a trade deal with Australia is a win-win 🇬🇧🇦🇺
An agreement will strengthen ties between two great friends and democracies bound by a shared belief in free enterprise, fair play and high standards.
Let’s get this done👇
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We’ve launched a call for expert advisers to join our new Trade and Agriculture Commission. It will:
👉Put farming at the heart of 🇬🇧 trade policy
👉Scrutinise new trade deals
👉Launch in summer ready to scrutinise FTAs before they are put to Parliament
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🇬🇧🇦🇺trade deal done. The UK-Australia agreement:
👉 is the first we have negotiated from scratch, showing what we can do as a sovereign trading nation
👉 is a fundamentally liberalising deal
👉 strengthens the bond between two great friends and democracies
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🇬🇧🇦🇺 Our new trade deal with Australia means:
✅Tariff-free trade for all UK goods
✅It’s easier for people to travel and work in Australia
✅Lower prices & more choice for UK shoppers
This is a win-win deal for our £14bn trading relationship 👇
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🇬🇧🇯🇵We've secured another win for British exporters.
🐔🥚UK poultry can now be exported to Japan for the first time.
This will:
✅Boost the industry by up to £65 million over 5 years
✅Increase opportunities for UK farmers, producers and exporters
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 Fantastic welcoming @AmbassadorTai to the UK today.
We’re making great progress on:
👉 Working together to tackle unfair trade practices
👉 Ending the Airbus/Boeing dispute
👉 Helping our countries #BuildBackBetter through trade
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. MP for South West Norfolk.