Ecuador: Foreign Relations

(asked on 4th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with its counterpart in Ecuador on building economic ties with the UK.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 11th February 2019

The Department for International Trade leads on this issue. Most recently, the Secretary of State for International Trade met his Ecuadorean counterpart, Mr Pablo Campana, on 24 January. Discussions focused on replicating the current broader EU-Andean Free Trade Agreement into a bilateral agreement with the UK, to ensure there is no disruption to our trading relationship as we leave the EU. More widely, British Government officials, including our Ambassador in Quito, are in regular contact with the Ecuadorean government on a variety of bilateral issues, including the economic relationship. UK goods exports to Ecuador more than doubled following the entry into force of the EU Ecuador Trade Agreement in January 2017.

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