Trade Agreements

(asked on 22nd March 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the legal status of the UK's existing trade agreements agreed through membership of the EU of the UK leaving the EU.


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David Gauke
This question was answered on 22nd April 2016

All of the EU’s Free Trade Agreements would cease to apply to the UK if we left the EU, since they only apply to the territories to which the EU Treaties apply.

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