Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for International Trade)

Organisations: Department for Business and Trade

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

  • overall free trade agreement (FTA) and market access strategy
  • FTA negotiations
  • bilateral trade relations
  • Osaka 2025 Expo
  • multilateral policy
  • trade remedies
  • tariffs and disputes
  • Export Control Joint Unit
  • trade envoys
  • overall responsibility for the implementation of DBT’s responsibilities under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), with particular policy responsibility for Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), and Services Investment and Digital Trade (SID)
  • engagement with crown dependencies and overseas territories
  • Trade and Agriculture Commission
  • Trade Remedies Authority

Previous holders of this role

  1. Nigel Huddleston MP

    2023 to 2023

  2. James Duddridge MP

    2022 to 2022