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Photo: 123rf.com The UK is keen to have FTAs with 80 percent of its current trading partners as part of its post-Brexit strategy, with its sights also set on joining the Trans-Pacific partnership (CPTPP). Clarke told Morning Report that Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O Connor and the UK s Secretary of State for International Trade spoke of wanting to make progress as fast as we can . Actually to have got as far as we have after just four rounds is actually pretty good going, she said, adding that the next round of talks were scheduled for June and July. ....
ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF British High Commissioner Laura Clarke speaks about New Zealand s trading relationship with the UK, and how its changed. New Zealand will “intensify” free trade talks with the United Kingdom, as negotiations over market access for New Zealand’s agricultural products inch forward and Australia streaks ahead with its deal. Trade Minister Damien O Connor says he spoke with his British counterpart, Trade Secretary Liz Truss, by phone on Wednesday evening, and the pair agreed to accelerate negotiations in hope of settling a NZ-UK Free Trade Agreement “in the coming months”. “Teams will now intensify talks, with chief negotiators meeting monthly and the next formal rounds of talks scheduled for early June and July,” O’Connor said, in a statement issued after the call. ....