The UK Applies To Join Asia-Pacific Free Trade Agreement

On Monday, the UK will apply to join one of the world's largest free-trade areas that include 11 Asia and Pacific nations...

Remember the fear mongering (*cough*)...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) covers a market of approximately 500 million people with the EU covering around 446 million, in contrast.

Oh, and the move was announced precisely a year after the UK left the EU...

International trade secretary, Liz Truss will speak to ministers in Japan and New Zealand on Monday morning (1 February 2021) to request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with formal negotiations

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