EU External Trade: Trade Agreements
(asked on 31st October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the article entitled UK has rolled over only 14 of 236 EU International Treaties published by the Financial Times on 29 October 2018, how many of the EU free trade agreements the Government has secured agreement to replicate.
This question was answered on 9th November 2018
As an EU Member State, the UK currently participates in around 40 free trade agreements. The Government continues to seek continuity for the effects of these agreements as we leave the EU.