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Trade Agreements

Question for Department for International Trade

UIN 108326, tabled on 17 October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how he plans to ensure bilateral cumulation in rules of origin exist as part of plans to replicate existing EU third-party trade agreements.

Answered on

24 October 2017

We are currently working with existing EU trading partners to ensure that where preferential trading agreements are in place, arrangements are made that will allow maximum possible continuity in the effect of these agreements, when the UK leaves the EU. This is a technical exercise to ensure continuity in existing trading arrangements.