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🇬🇧🇦🇺 I spoke to the @TheSun about the benefits our Australia trade deal will bring to the UK. It means:
- Tariff-free trade for all 🇬🇧 goods
- Makes it easier for Brits to travel and work in 🇦🇺
- A pathway into #CPTPP, a £9 trillion free trade area👇
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Read the UK-Australia Agreement in Principle here 🇬🇧🇦🇺 👇
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NEW: 🇬🇧🇺🇸We’ve secured an historic deal with the US on the long-running Airbus-Boeing disputes today
This will support jobs across 🇬🇧 and is great news for Scotch whisky and other exports including aerospace who will no longer face punitive tariffs 👇
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Pleased to welcome my friend @DamienOConnorMP to the UK today to ramp up trade talks. 🇬🇧🇳🇿
A deal will:
👉Strengthen ties of with an old ally and partner
👉Allow better access to NZ for our world-leading services
👉Pave the way to joining the trans-Pacific trade partnership
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Had productive talks with @DamienOConnorMP today on our UK-New Zealand trade deal 🇬🇧🇳🇿
We made good progress in areas like:
✅Better access for our services companies
✅Lower tariffs on our exports
✅Advanced digital trade provisions
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🇬🇧🇳🇿Productive day of UK-New Zealand talks yesterday with @DamienOConnorMP working towards our modern free trade agreement.
We are now accelerating progress to finalise the details of a deal that benefits everyone across the UK.
Read our joint statement here 👇
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Thanks to our brilliant team at @tradegovuk for working round the clock to make this happen, all in one week 💪👇
🇦🇺 Agreement in principle with Australia
🇺🇸 Deal with US on Airbus-Boeing dispute
🇳🇿 Accelerated negotiations with New Zealand
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NEW: Tomorrow we launch negotiations with #CPTPP
Joining will:
✅ Hitch 🇬🇧 to the fastest growing part of the world
✅ Lower tariffs on goods like cars and whisky
✅ Boost access for services and tech firms👇
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🇬🇧🌎 Later today I am launching negotiations to join #CPTPP to open new opportunities to this £9 trillion trade area:
Read our:
🌍Negotiating objectives
🌏Strategic case for joining
🌎Consultation response
🌍Scoping assessment👇
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Read my article on why 🇬🇧 joining #CPTPP will push the world in a free-trade direction👇
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Today I launch talks for a Digital Economy Agreement with Singapore. 🇸🇬🇬🇧💻
This will:
✅ Remove barriers to digital trade
✅ Boost the UK's status as a global hub for services trade
✅ Make us the first European country to seek such a deal
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Great to speak to Minister Iswaran and launch negotiations for our Digital Economy Agreement.🇬🇧🇸🇬
Singapore is a leading free trading nation and a valued member of CPTPP.
A future high standards digital agreement will drive jobs and growth across 🇬🇧 👇
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🇮🇱🇬🇧Great to meet Israel’s Economy & Trade Minister @ornabarb to discuss:
👉 Our forthcoming advanced free trade agreement
👉 Deepening trade ties in industries of the future like tech, digital and data
👉 Building on our £5bn trade relationship👇
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Great news from @Nissan & @envisioncn.
Next generation of EVs will be made in 🇬🇧 with batteries from 1st UK at-scale #gigafactory.
👉Supporting 1000s of jobs
👉100k electric vehicles made per year from 2024
👉Boosting UK's net zero, greener future
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.@Nissan investment is a major win for @GerryGrimstone & the Office for Investment + part of our drive to
👉 Promote Global Britain's low-tax, high-skill economy
👉 Drive jobs & growth
👉 Level up 🇬🇧 through our trade and investment hubs
#InvestInBritain
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At @AirbusintheUK in Broughton, Wales seeing wing production:
✈️ Reaching 🇬🇧🇺🇸 deal on Airbus-Boeing has seen tariffs on wings removed
✈️ Major new order for 70 planes from United
✈️ Employ 5,000 staff in Wales
Trade=jobs
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Happy #IndependenceDay to our American friends. Long may liberty and democracy prevail!
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Today the UK signed the most advanced trade deal that Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein have ever agreed 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮
This will:
👉Slash tariffs & support jobs
👉Boost a trading relationship worth £21.6 bn
👉Cut red tape, making it easier for firms to export across borders 👇
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Our apples are now on the way to India for the first time in 50 years thanks to the Enhanced Trade Partnership. 🇬🇧 🍎 🇮🇳 👇 twitter.com/ranil/status/1…
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Arrived in Washington DC with @BWallaceMP.
I am working with our 🇺🇸 allies to:
▶️ Grow our £200bn trading relationship
▶️ Challenge unfair trading practices
▶️ Gain access for 🇬🇧 lamb into US market.
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🎈We're celebrating 5 years as a department today.
🎈Trade deals covering 68 countries with more on the way.
👏 Thanks to the brilliant team at @tradegovuk for all your hard work. twitter.com/tradegovuk/sta…
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NEW: We're consulting on a new 🇬🇧 pro-enterprise trade scheme for developing countries that will:
👉 Give developing countries a better and fairer deal
👉 Be less bureaucratic
👉 Support growth and jobs at home and across the 🌎
Trade = jobs
More: bit.ly/3rlLEwo
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. MP for South West Norfolk.