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Future Free Trade Agreements

Proceeding contribution from Liam Fox (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 February 2019. It occurred during Debate on Future Free Trade Agreements.

I know that the hon. Gentleman feels very strongly about this. He did not like the result of the referendum and he does not like the decision to leave the European Union, but we are leaving the European Union and we need to ensure that we have sufficient access to the European market, but in a way that does not tie our hands in relation to increased access to other global markets. He makes assumptions on growth in other markets that I do not accept. Nor is this purely about access to goods markets; it is also about the growing access to services markets. In the global trading environment, we have simply not seen the sort of liberalisation in services that we have seen in goods since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation. There is huge potential to unlock the economic benefits to the United Kingdom in seeking global liberalisation in services trading, which is not factored into any of the equations that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
654 c1624 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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