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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain stated it was in dialogue with round 20 U.S. states to safe particular person commerce offers as quickly as subsequent month, commerce coverage minister Penny Mordaunt informed parliament on Thursday.
Within the absence of progress in the direction of an overarching UK-U.S. commerce settlement British negotiators are searching for to safe state degree agreements, together with a cope with Texas by October this 12 months
“There’s been appreciable progress on this and we’re in discussions with round 20 U.S. states,” Mordaunt stated.
“We’re going to do a state degree settlement with Texas we hope by October of this 12 months, and we’ll begin signing these agreements with U.S. states subsequent month. The primary eight that we’ve within the pipeline can be equal to twenty% of america economic system,” Mordaunt stated in parliament.