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Read my piece in @Telegraph
about the enduring importance of our relationship with Canada, a fellow free-market democracy.
Great to agree our 🇬🇧🇨🇦 deal and looking forward to new negotiations in 2021 for a more ambitious FTA and CPTPP accession. 👇
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Watch the moment we agreed our 🇬🇧🇨🇦 deal in principle with @BorisJohnson, @JustinTrudeau and @mary_ng.
Looking forward to getting back to the negotiating table in 2021 for an even more ambitious deal.
Thanks to the @tradegovuk and @CanadaTrade teams for all their great work.
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Our 🇬🇧 beef now stateside.👇 twitter.com/KarenPierceUK/…
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The 3rd round of trade talks with our great friend Australia start today. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
We want a gold-standard deal that cuts tariffs for 🇬🇧 business and opens new opportunities in areas like telecoms, tech & services.
Trade = opportunity = economic growth.
#GlobalBritain #UKAusFTA
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🥃Great news! Delighted that the UK has signed a Geographical Indications agreement with Mexico protecting #ScotchWhisky and #IrishWhiskey in 🇲🇽 and #Tequila and #Mezcal in 🇬🇧
These traditional drinks provide our countries with pride and a great way to celebrate #StAndrewsDay
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🤝Another deal done: Today we've signed a continuity trade agreement with North Macedonia.🇬🇧🇲🇰
With trade between our countries worth £1.8bn, this deal gives certainty to businesses and paves the way for increased trade in the future.
#GlobalBritain
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The National Diet of Japan has today formally approved the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. 🇬🇧 🇯🇵
An important step towards the formal ratification of this historic deal.
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We have secured a vital deal allowing service professionals to work in Switzerland visa-free for 90 days 🇬🇧 🇨🇭
This agreement locks in our existing services relationship, worth over £17bn, & is part of our strategy to enhance the UK’s status as a global services hub 🌎
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Another trade deal signed: today the UK has signed a continuity trade agreement with Egypt 🇬🇧🇪🇬 - taking us up to 55 countries.
This continuity deal secures the £3.5bn of trade between our countries.
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The 🇬🇧-🇯🇵 Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement has completed UK parliamentary scrutiny.
Next steps:
👉The UK and Japan exchange diplomatic notes
👉Deal enters into force on 1 January
👉Businesses benefit from our stronger trading relationship
#furtherandfaster
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Today the UK 🇬🇧 and Kenya 🇰🇪 signed a continuity trade deal.
This agreement means:
👉certainty for industry
👉duty-free access for Kenyan businesses to the UK market
👉important first step towards reaching agreement with the East African Community
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🇬🇧🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮 Today we have secured continuity for businesses trading goods with Norway and Iceland, worth over £20bn last year.
We're looking forward to a more comprehensive FTA with Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein that will come into force in 2021.
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From 1 January we will:
🏭 Defend UK steel industry against US tariffs on aluminium & steel & consult on 🇬🇧 specific measures
✈ Suspend retaliatory tariffs against 🇺🇸 in Airbus-Boeing dispute.
We want to rapidly de-escalate & reach a negotiated outcome
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Spoke at #MIGlobal Asia Summit today in Singapore on the future of UK trade. I talked about:
✅ How digital & data trade will help Covid recovery
✅ Our aim to be a digital hub not a digital island
✅ Why Singapore and CPTPP countries are important partners for the UK 🇬🇧 🇸🇬 🌏
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BREAKING: We've just signed the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement. 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
This deal with our historic friend and ally means:
👉certainty for jobs & industries
👉a springboard for a new, more advanced trade deal
👉one step closer to joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Today we signed the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement. 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
The UK and Canada are democracies with shared values and a fierce commitment to rules-based free trade.
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Today I signed a deal with Singapore covering £17.6bn of trade - the 2nd biggest agreement we’ve signed in #AsiaPacific 🇬🇧🇸🇬
✅It secures certainty for biz
✅Means deeper future ties in digital & services trade
✅ Is further proof we can succeed as an independent trading nation
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A new Digital Economy Agreement with Singapore will boost the UK’s role as a global hub for #digitaltrade
This is the 1st agreement of its kind Singapore will negotiate with a European country 🇬🇧 🇸🇬
Together we can push new frontiers in trade & drive the recovery from Covid 👇
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Today’s deal with Singapore brings us closer to joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership 🇬🇧🇸🇬 🌎
Membership of this high standards agreement will:
✅ create opportunities in fast growing markets
✅ diversify our supply chains
✅ boost the global argument for free trade
#CPTPP
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Two maritime nations, two digitally advanced economies. 🇬🇧🇸🇬
Brilliant to see those two worlds meet at the free port of Singapore today, where technology is revolutionising global supply chains ... with the help of UK cyber security companies.
#digitalfuture #UKSingapore
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We have just secured a trade agreement with Vietnam 🇬🇧🇻🇳
This deal means:
👉 certainty for UK business
👉 a deeper relationship with a country who shares our belief in free trade
👉 another step closer to joining the Trans Pacific Partnership
Trade = opportunity = jobs
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Today we secured a trade deal with Vietnam 🇬🇧🇻🇳
We have now agreed deals with 57 countries, covering £193bn of trade.
This is unprecedented. No country has ever moved so fast to negotiate so many deals simultaneously. Well done to our brilliant negotiators 🌎
#GlobalBritain
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🇬🇧🇦🇺 We’ve concluded R3 of trade talks with our great friend Australia. Good progress on digital trade and we exchanged our first tariff offers 👍
We're working fast to secure a gold-standard deal that drives growth and benefits the whole 🇬🇧
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🇬🇧🇨🇭 We’ve just signed the UK-Switzerland Services Mobility Agreement.
✅ Allows UK service providers to work in Switzerland up to 90 days visa-free
✅ Boosts 🇬🇧 role as global digital and services trade hub
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🇬🇧🇮🇳I co-chaired a meeting of UK and Indian CEOs today with @PiyushGoyal. We discussed:
👉An enhanced trade partnership between two nations who believe in free enterprise and democracy
👉Our climate ambitions ahead of COP26
👉How we can drive the economic recovery from covid 🌍
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. MP for South West Norfolk.