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HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI thank my hon. Friend for that excellent question. I am aware of his background—I think he worked for five years in Brazil and knows the market extremely well. Mercosur is, of…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI would point the hon. Member to the agreements that we have signed in recent weeks with Ukraine, with Côte d’Ivoire and with Japan, with Kenya agreed in principle. We are looking…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Even in the negotiation of continuity agreements, it is important to ensure that we get the best possible deal for British consumers and…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyOf course the whole Government take a common approach to the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill. It is important for our trade partners to know that the UK has a well-functioning…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMy hon. Friend is right; we can have an esoteric discussion about trade policy, tariffs, quotas, automated tariff quotes and all this kind of stuff, but it must work for our…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI thank my hon. Friend for that question. I think he is asking me to ban things that are already banned and put it in writing. Let me make it clear that we remain absolutely…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI spent part of my childhood in the south-west, and I remember only too well the quality of its produce in the agrifood sector. We are negotiating better market access in markets…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI know, from previous meetings that the hon. Lady and I have had, her passion and commitment to the UK’s trade with Africa. On Ghana, I look at the situation closely, as does the…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyIt is relatively straightforward. If the agreement is made with the remaining countries and there is not the time to put it through the CRaG process before 31 December, it has the…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMr Speaker, I think I will use a cricketing analogy: we are 74 not out.17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI am glad the hon. Gentleman made his question as long as he did, because it gave me the chance to check the voting record on the Canada deal he just mentioned. He actually voted…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI thank my hon. Friend for all his interaction. As the former Chairman of the Select Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, he has genuine expertise in this area and has…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMy hon. Friend is quite right. We have gone through Stoke from south to central and now to north. I reiterate our commitment to the ceramics industry, ensuring that we break down…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyAs soon as we conclude one of these continuity agreements and sign it, we will seek to publish it as soon as possible and start the CRaG process. The hon. Gentleman asks about the…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMy right hon. Friend represents his rural Lincolnshire constituency very effectively. There is no rush to complete future free trade agreements; he mentioned particularly the…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question, and he is right to highlight the importance of Welsh exports. They are very important to us at the UK Department for International…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and farming in Wales is so important that we have put its representatives on the Trade and Agriculture Commission not once, but twice; both NFU…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI greatly respect the work the hon. Gentleman has done in Northern Ireland over recent years, and he and I met in a separate capacity last year to discuss some of these problems.…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI think the hon. Lady asked about scrambling at the last minute, but we have done deals with 52 countries that account for £142 billion of bilateral trade. That is a huge amount:…17 Nov 2020HANSARD Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary ScrutinyI can confirm that on 1 January under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 all of those existing rules will be transferred over to the UK statute book, and those bans will be…17 Nov 2020