After Brexit, the United Kingdom wants to expand its trade agreements but favors bilateral free trade with Washington.
Le Royaume-Uni n’exclut pas de rejoindre l’accord commercial unissant les États-Unis, le Canada et le Mexique s’il ne parvient passed a bilatéral free-exchange accord with Washington, to which I mercredi the British minister of l ‘Environment.
“Nous n’excluons rien”, declared by George Eustice on the Sky News channel, asked about the possibility for London to rejoin the trilateral accord (USMCA), the replacement of l’Aléna (accord de libre-exchange nord-americain), although “Our preference is to have a bilateral trade agreement with the United States”.
Since its departure from the European Union, finally implemented on January 1, the British ambition to conclude full free trade agreements to establish its strategy of “global Britain”. Some sixty agreements have already been concluded, in particular with Japan, but London is very much looking forward to reaching an agreement with the United States.
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To cool his hopes, US President Joe Biden, however, abstained on Tuesday from any commitment to such a free trade agreement, stating only that “discussions continued” upon receiving British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the White House.
“President Biden has always been clear that trade deals are not really a priority for him right now.”, tried to put off George Eustice.
He assured that London “had no deadline” to find common ground. “We still hope to achieve it, but there is no rush”added: “We don’t need it before the next elections.”, scheduled for 2024, “But of course we would like to have one.”
On Sky News, Boris Johnson said Tuesday that London would go “as fast as possible”, without saying if an agreement could be reached before this deadline.
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