Posted on 07/25/2018 10:08:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.K. is hoping for a special Christmas present from President Donald Trump: a formal signal that he plans to begin talks on a free trade agreement with them in early spring 2019.
The U.K. and the United States will soon have the opportunity to negotiate “a trailblazing modern free trade agreement,” said Liam Fox, Britain’s secretary of state for international trade, in remarks at The Heritage Foundation.
However, two steps must occur before that can happen: the U.K. must complete its exit from the 28-nation European Union, which is currently scheduled for March 29, 2019, and the Trump administration must give Congress 90 days‘ notice of its intention to begin free trade talks with the U.K.
“That means if we want to start on the 30th of March, that notification has to be given to Congress before Christmas,” Fox said after meetings on Tuesday with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Fox declined to say whether he had a firm commitment from the Trump administration that it would send the required notification to Congress before the end of December. However, he noted the U.K. recently began public consultations on a trade deal with the United States with that timetable in mind....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
And gee, we hoped the UK would have voted in favor of moving our embassy to Jerusalem in the UN vote...but you didn’t.
And in return would they fly a smaller insult blimp ?
Which one? The baby or the chicken?
Hope so - their hope for a Christmas present may be more of an exchange of gifts though.....
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