Trade Agreements: USA

(asked on 30th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, on how many occasions and on what dates did senior officials in her Department (a) meet and (b) hold discussions with the Trump Administration during 2020 on a potential trade agreement with the US; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 5th July 2021

The UK and US negotiating teams have held five productive rounds of negotiations for the UK-US Free Trade Agreement, beginning in May 2020. A significant proportion of legal text has been agreed across multiple chapters throughout the course of negotiations so far. All rounds were held virtually.

  • Round one took place from 5-15 May 2020
  • Round two took place from 15-26 June 2020
  • Round three took place from 27 July to 7 August 2020
  • Round four took place from 8-18 September 2020
  • Round five took place from 19-30 October 2020

Links to the outcome statement for each of the five rounds are as follows:
Round One: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-05-18/hcws238

Round Two: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-06-30/hcws324

Round Three: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/negotiations-on-the-uks-future-trading-relationship-with-the-us-update--2

Round Four: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-09-22/hcws461

Round Five: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-11-02/hcws545

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