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Brexit: Steve Barclay says government will ‘defend the UK’
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The UK and EU member states are still adjusting to the new London-Brussels relationship after the Brexit trade deal came into force. This has been seen in Germany, as exports from the country to the UK fell by almost a third in the first month under post-Brexit trading arrangements, new figures revealed. Germany’s official statistics body said the end of the Brexit transition period was responsible for a 30 percent year-on-year plunge in exports to the UK in January but economists predicted the trade slump will ease. The plunge in German imports at the start of the UK’s life outside the EU was also worsened by many businesses stockpiling in December as Brexit talks went down to the wire.