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The Department for Business and Trade has announced the 10 SME winners of the 2024 Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

Statement follows the eighth meeting of the UK - U.S. SME Dialogues in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Updated: 17 April 2024

Following the inaugural Strategic Innovation Dialogue in London, the UK and Australia have issued a Joint Statement.

• Updated: 11 April 2024

British Ambassador to Guatemala, Nick Whittingham, met with Gabriela García-Quinn, Minister of Economy.

• Updated: 3 April 2024

UK artists will earn new royalties when their work is resold in Australia through the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement.

• Updated: 31 March 2024

Statements by Simon Manley, the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN. Delivered on 21 and 22 March 2024.

• Updated: 26 March 2024

The United Kingdom (UK) and state of Indiana governments attend the Second Working Group meeting in Indianapolis.

• Updated: 26 March 2024

Statement made on 21 March 2024

• Updated: 21 March 2024

The fourth round of negotiations on a UK-Switzerland enhanced Free Trade Agreement (FTA) took place in Bern, Switzerland from 4 to 8 March 2024.

• Updated: 21 March 2024

UK and Texas sign a trade pact to boost investment and trade cooperation.

• Updated: 13 March 2024

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch makes a speech at Chatham House on the role of the UK in the global trade landscape.

• Updated: 7 March 2024

48 WTO members agreed a statement at the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13), Minister for Trade Greg Hands represented the UK.

• Updated: 27 February 2024

Statement on the sixth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement between the UK and the Gulf Cooperation Council

• Updated: 19 February 2024

Nick Whittingham, British Ambassador to Guatemala, highlighted the opportunities arising from the new government’s economic plans at a briefing in the Guatemalan Central Bank.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

UK to support Ukrainian businesses by extending tariff-free trade until 2029

• Updated: 8 February 2024

UK and North Carolina host the third working group meeting since the signature of the UK / North Carolina Memorandum of Understanding.

• Updated: 6 February 2024

UK’s Minister of State, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, will visit Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Ahmedabad in Gujarat on a 3-day visit to India.

• Updated: 8 January 2024

UK and Utah attend the inaugural working group meeting.

• Updated: 15 December 2023

The Prime Minister has today made three appointments to his Trade Envoy programme. 

• Updated: 13 December 2023

The UK is delivering the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Australia by engaging with industry, policy markets, implementers, and regulators.

• Updated: 29 November 2023