Extract from Scottish Parliament debate on European Union Withdrawal Negotiations - Mar 5
Wednesday, 6 March 2019 08:14
Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP):...We have been promised
trade agreements with individual countries by May’s Government. Let
us count the trade deals that the struggling UK Secretary of State
for International Trade, Liam Fox, has secured so far. Of the
world’s 195 countries, Fox has managed to secure deals with only
six. Israel, which is the largest among those, buys £2.4
billion-worth of UK goods and services, with £1.6 billion flowing
the other way. At the other end of...Request free trial
(Aberdeenshire East)
(SNP):...We have been promised trade agreements with
individual countries by May’s Government. Let us count the trade
deals that the struggling UK Secretary of State for International
Trade, , has secured so far. Of the world’s
195 countries, Fox has managed to secure deals with only
six. Israel, which is the largest among those, buys
£2.4 billion-worth of UK goods and services, with £1.6 billion
flowing the other way. At the other end of the scale, Fox managed
to get Eritrea and Comoros, both of which bought no UK goods or
services last year. The total sum of those six deals is a tiny
fraction of what we currently trade across the EU. Currently, 44
per cent of all UK exports are to the EU. That is not being
replaced...
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