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Overseas Trade

Asked by Munira WilsonLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 27 March 2025UIN 39969

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Frontier Economics' report entitled Modelling the effects of closer UK-EU cooperation and of US tariffs, published on 10 February 2025.

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

We welcome the publication of the report and the contribution to the evidence base used to inform our trade policy. Our number one priority is growing the UK economy, and a positive trading relationship with both the US and with our European partners are part of that approach.

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