Liz Truss will start talks for country to join one of the world’s biggest free-trade areas 

Britain aims for trade deal with Pacific nations: Liz Truss will start talks for country to join one of the world’s biggest free-trade areas Liz Truss hopes trans-Pacific partnership will ‘pivot away’ UK from Europe   She will launch the UK’s member bid in video call with her Japanese counterpart  It is a trade agreement between … Read more

Plans ‘within weeks’ for the UK to join trans-Pacific trading club

Ministers will unveil plans ‘within weeks’ for the UK to join trans-Pacific trading club including Australia, Canada and Japan Liz Truss says plans to join trans-Pacific trading group unveiled ‘within weeks’ The CPTPP has formally agreed to start accession negotiation with the UK The free trade area includes Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand  By … Read more

Farming leaders fear Liz Truss trade deal will flood Britain with poor-quality meat

Farming leaders fear Liz Truss will sign a free trade deal with Australia which could see cheap beef flooding the UK market Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union, says members are concerned They fear Ms Truss’s negotiators have agreed to tariff-free access to UK market in their haste to secure a deal before … Read more

Britain ‘WON’T lower beef standards to secure a trade deal’

Britain ‘WON’T lower beef standards to secure a trade deal’ – but we could be drinking cheaper wine from Australia Australia has been pushing for the move as part of a new trade deal with the UK Liz Truss said that food standards was an issue she would not be giving way on  Miss Truss did … Read more

Brexit booze bonus as Liz Truss claims Australian wine will become CHEAPER under new trade deal

Brexit booze bonus as Liz Truss claims Australian wine will become CHEAPER in the UK under terms of new trade deal she is agreeing with Canberra The ‘vast majority’ of a free trade deal with Australia has been agreed Ms Truss said that it included provisions that would make wine cheaper here Also opens up  … Read more

Australian MP blasts ‘amateurish’ Liz Truss

Australian MP blasts ‘amateurish’ Liz Truss after she insulted the Canberra minister she is trying to strike a trade deal with as the pair meet in London for crunch talks Liz Truss holding face-to-face talks with Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan Talks in London started this morning but UK frustrated at pace of the progress … Read more

Whitehall adviser accuses ministers of creating an unpleasant environment for gay people

Equality chief in gay hostility row: Whitehall adviser accuses ministers of creating an unpleasant environment for gay people as she quits her post Jayne Ozanne has labelled ministers Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch as ‘ignorant’ Miss Ozanne quit the Conservative Party and Government’s LGBT advisory panel She says there’s a ‘hostile environment for LGBT people’ … Read more

Post-Brexit trade: US drops tariffs on whisky, cashmere and Stilton imports from UK

US drops tariffs on whisky, cashmere and Stilton as trade deal with Britain inches closer – two months after Liz Truss axed fees on American imports US said millions worth of tariffs on Scotch and other goods would be suspended Cashmere and cheese are also set to benefit from the American relaxation Comes a month … Read more

America drops tariffs on whisky, cashmere and Stilton after splitting UK from charges imposed on EU

US drops tariffs on whisky, cashmere and Stilton as trade deal with Britain inches closer – two months after Liz Truss axed fees on American imports US said millions worth of tariffs on Scotch and other goods would be suspended Cashmere and cheese are also set to benefit from the American relaxation Comes a month … Read more

Boost for Brexit Britain as Liz Truss says US trade deal is ‘in the pipeline’

Boost for Brexit Britain as Liz Truss says US trade deal is ‘in the pipeline’ as she announces the UK is applying to join a £9trillion pan-Pacific free trade area next year The Trade Secretary said that a deal with Washington is ‘in the pipeline’   Britain wants to join CPTPP tariff-free trade group of Pacific … Read more