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    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      UK Government
      Sunak poised for mini-reshuffle after Zahawi’s downfall

      PM ready to appoint new party chair and create standalone energy ministry

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Brexit
      Former Tory minister lays into post-Brexit Australia trade deal

      George Eustice says agreement signed by Liz Truss ‘gave away far too much for far too little’

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      UK trade
      UK steelmakers outraged at plan to ease anti-dumping measures on China

      Trade Remedies Authority has proposed ending restrictions on import of ‘rebar’, used to strengthen concrete

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      UK trade
      UK unveils emergency legislation to protect domestic steelmakers

      Move follows fierce lobbying over fears of cheap imports but flies in face of new post-Brexit trade regime

    • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
      UK trade
      MPs demand power to scrutinise UK’s post-Brexit trade deals

      Cross-party group seeks right to debate agreements as pact with Australia set to be announced

    • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
      UK trade
      Export support for small companies cut ahead of Brexit

      Ministers urged to release grants to help businesses make most of online trade shows

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      UK trade
      Johnson stokes controversy by appointing Abbott trade adviser

      Former Australian PM joins UK’s Board of Trade despite criticism of his views on climate change and gay marriage

    • Monday, 22 June, 2020
      UK trade
      Japan rushes UK to agree first post-Brexit trade deal

      Britain under pressure to meet Tokyo’s 6-week timetable, meaning key areas such as agriculture may suffer

    • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
      UK’s Department for International Trade tipped to merge with FCO

      News comes as DIT reveals two of its key post-Brexit trade deals will have a negligible effect on UK economy

    • Monday, 2 March, 2020
      UK trade
      US trade deal to boost UK economy by 0.16% over 15 years

      Government says future pact will fail to offset loss in trade from leaving EU

    • Sunday, 1 March, 2020
      UK trade
      Britain to set out mandate for post-Brexit US deal

      Johnson insists trade negotiators will not buckle on NHS and food standards

    • Sunday, 15 December, 2019
      UK general election
      Conservatives prepare shake-up of government machine

      Overhaul of Whitehall bureaucracy for a post-Brexit economy driven by adviser Dominic Cummings

    • Monday, 7 October, 2019
      Brexit
      Warning of threat to UK-EU trade deal from US food demands

      Defra officials’ paper points to pressure to relax food and animal health standards after Brexit

    • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
      Brexit
      Ministers to overhaul planned tariff plan for no-deal Brexit

      Deep cuts made to proposed duties on heavy trucks after haulage industry objected

    • Monday, 26 August, 2019
      Boris Johnson
      No 10 backs Boris Johnson’s pork pie claim despite rebuttals

      Manufacturers deny any export market as Downing Street cites DfIT note to contrary

    • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
      UK trade
      UK and South Korea to sign ‘continuity free trade agreement’

      Deal is one of the biggest signed as part of pre-Brexit planning

    • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
      Rona Fairhead and Zahida Manzoor quit government

      Liam Fox must fill role of trade minister for third time as pressure on department grows

    • Tuesday, 5 March, 2019
      UK trade
      Liam Fox’s trade department cancels Brexit briefings with business

      Halt to roundtables after details on lack of deals leaked by infuriated participants

    • Friday, 8 February, 2019
      UK trade
      Lack of trade defences for no-deal Brexit alarms MPs

      Hold-ups to new regulator and laws open risk of dumping and unfair subsidies

    • Wednesday, 6 February, 2019
      Brexit
      Business expresses fury at UK failure to roll over EU trade deals

      Confidential briefing hears government cannot guarantee rollover of most current EU FTAs

    • Monday, 12 November, 2018
      Brexit
      Only ‘preliminary’ analysis done on post-Brexit US trade deal

      UK trade department turns down information request saying research is not complete

    • Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
      Rona Fairhead
      How Britain can be an export champion

      The government is helping businesses of all sizes to make the most of global trade

    • Wednesday, 30 May, 2018
      Britain after Brexit
      Re-drawing the Whitehall map after Brexit

      Senior mandarins are having to address 3 questions

    • Friday, 11 May, 2018
      Jonathan Derbyshire
      Opinion today: How Europe should react to Trump

      France, Germany and the UK should do what they can to hold together what remains of the nuclear deal

    • Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
      Letter
      A look at alternatives to customs union reveals its benefits

      From Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, House of Lords, London, UK

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