BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 14:12:00
Marc ashdown has more now on what the deal means for british businesses and the economy as a whole. and what this will mean is frictionless free trade for uk exporters. and this is a bloc which generates about 13% of the world's income. now the uk is on board. this should amount to about £11 trillion. what it means is no tariffs on all sorts of things from cheese and whisky and gin to cars and various bits of machinery. so it should in theory boost our exports. but it is worth noting a couple of things here. firstly, we did have deals already in place with nine out of 11 of these countries in...