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Trade Agreements: USA

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 11 November 2024UIN 13123

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with his US counterpart on a free trade agreement.

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

Ministers and officials regularly engage with their US counterparts to discuss ways to strengthen the UK-US trading relationship, already worth £304 billion. The Secretary of State met US Trade Representative Katherine Tai at the G20 Summit in October where they discussed deepening UK-US collaboration.

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