UK โnot seekingโ to join Europe trade pact, minister insists
U.K. cools talk of joining Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention after comments by EU point-man โ while leaving some wiggle room.
U.K. cools talk of joining Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention after comments by EU point-man โ while leaving some wiggle room.
With global free-traders on the back foot amid Donald Trump’s return, the U.K. is placing its bets on the tongue-twisting CPTPP.
Trade minister Douglas Alexander said Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the EU caused “significant disruption” to its trade policy and the country needed to recalibrate its global trade outlook.