Overseas Trade: China

(asked on 20th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2021 to Question 28243 on Overseas Trade: China, whether her Department plans to begin discussions on (a) state-to-state trade or (b) a Sino-British Investment deal with China while that country maintains sanctions on hon. Members, British lawyers and British academics.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 23rd September 2021

HM Government has no plans to negotiate a trade deal with China. We do not have dates for the next United Kingdom-China Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO), which is our long-established trade dialogue with China.

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