Climate change the key to US-UK trade deal?
Trade deals did not feature in Joe Biden's "to do" list as he moved into the White House on Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps that was not surprising for a new president whose pressing priorities centre on economic recovery and the coronavirus pandemic.
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“When he comes to do one, there are two much bigger trade deals that he could potentially do, rather than a deal with a medium-sized country of 65 million people.“One is he could resume the talks that never finished in Obama's time on an EU-US free trade deal and the other is that he could take America into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which Mr Trump withdrew from), which is potentially a huge advantage for America and would start to counter Chinese influence in that region."But Dame Karen Pierce, the current ambassador in Washington, has struck a more optimistic note saying a deal with the US was top of the UK's trade agenda. It would be a deal, she added, that would include provisions on small enterprises and digital commerce that would be “standard-bearers” for future agreements.And in words that would have struck just the right note in Mr Biden's White House, she highlighted that the two nations' shared goals from now on would be focused on climate change and post-pandemic economic recovery.
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