Trade Agreements: Mexico

(asked on 13th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans she has to negotiate an enhanced trade agreement with Mexico, subsequent to the UK-Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement signed in 2020.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 18th May 2021

The United Kingdom signed a Trade Continuity Agreement with Mexico on 15th December 2020. The Government has agreed to begin new negotiations with Mexico on an ambitious, modern and comprehensive free trade agreement within one year, and to conclude them within three years.

The joint political statement published by both countries commits that this will be at least as liberalising as the EU-Mexico Modernised Agreement that will come into force next year.

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