UK and Canada strike transitional post-Brexit trade deal

Britain and Canada struck a rollover trade deal on Saturday to protect the flow of $27 billion-worth (£20 billion) of goods and services between them after Brexit, and vowed to start talks on a bespoke agreement next year.

As Britain prepares to end its transition out of the European Union on Dec. 31, it has negotiated multiple rollover bilateral deals to maintain trade, with many simply replacing the terms the bloc had already agreed.

PM Boris Johnson joined Canada's Justin Trudeau and their respective trade ministers on an online call to mark the deal, which paves the way for a tailor-made agreement covering more areas such as digital trade, small businesses, the environment and women's economic empowerment.

Britain is Canada's fifth-largest trading partner after the United States, China, Mexico and Japan.

Johnson is trying to shape a new "global Britain" that can strike out alone and negotiate better trade agreements than the EU as part of what he says is the benefits of its historic decision to leave the world's biggest trading bloc.

In less than two years it has agreed trade deals with 53 countries, accounting for 164 billion pounds ($217.82 billion) of British bilateral trade. Johnson's critics point out that many are largely the same as the EU deals.

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[johnwest]

Twitch streamers have better camera and audio quality than world leaders lmao

[ancientragerv]

This is pretty much what online school is like

[saelaird]

CANZUK baby! Love it.

Canada
Australia
New Zealand
UK

Let's smash it!

[absolutetruths]

If this deal involves ‘The Great Reset’, I’m not interested.

[Omnipotent-Q]

“How many flags do you want for the Zoom meeting?”. “Yes”.

[thefifthdoctor]

All I want to know is when is the U.K. getting ps5 back in stock?

[jasonkingshott]

Don't bother expecting to see this on the BBC News.

[alexrussell]

i think boris is selling us out.the great con.

[Sameoldfitup]

Meanwhile no one can get NHS operations

[nf]

Just Australia and New Zealand now... CANZUK is close 🙏

[Bribbuk]

Why is the Canadian Prime Minister delivering these talks from a pub bathroom?

[mikeg]

Whatever the deal is it took 9 years less than the EU / Canada deal.

[SupaSeb]

I can practically smell the corruption off this lot.

[daviniaalice]

When I heard that Justin was Castro's son I couldn't unsee it.

[rossicourvosi]

I wouldn't trust the date on a sun newspaper

[wojciechkozlowski]

It doesn’t mater with who deal as long as it will kickstart Uk economy,

[olgaseijido]

Boris..really? That low? Well, at least, if it was not already clear, we know now which side you are on this. Cristal clear. You lot are going down, it's a matter of when.

[Evo__]

The only "green" im interested in is the one i can smoke.

[realnagger]

It took them 4 years...
to end up with EXACTLY the same deal they had 4 years ago!
What an achievement!!!

[kosys]

CANZUK NOW! As a Canadian I support CANZUK.