Britain is discovering the difficult truth about trade deals | Phillip Inman
by Phillip Inman from on (#4994E)
Wanting to forge new trading relationships after Brexit and securing them are two very different things
A trade deal, any trade deal: that is all Liam Fox wants from his civil servants. It is not much for an international trade secretary to ask. Especially when the prospect of all-encompassing agreements on imports and exports was held up in the referendum and its aftermath as one of the chief benefits of quitting the European Union. Not least by Fox himself.
Wanting a trade deal and securing one are not the same thing, as Fox has found out in the last two years of chasing down the 69 nations that have deals with the EU which the UK needs to replicate.
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