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UK attends launch of new quality certification scheme at OECD Headquarters in Paris to address infrastructure gap in emerging markets.

• Updated: 9 April 2024

Minister for Exports Lord Offord will visit Latin America and the Caribbean where he will fly the flag for British businesses looking to sell their products in markets round the world.

• Updated: 5 April 2024

International Trade Minister kicks off a multi-state visit to Peru and Colombia to meet counterparts and push forward action to resolve trade barriers.

• Updated: 9 October 2023

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch signs UK-Italy export and investment partnership boosting UK exports, help create jobs, increase wages and grow the economy.

• Updated: 11 September 2023

Exports Minister Lord Offord is in Uzbekistan to expand on UK-Uzbek relations and find untapped business opportunities.

• Updated: 21 August 2023

The Minister for International Trade welcomed the Governor of Illinois to announce the intent to pursue a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the UK and Illinois

• Updated: 18 July 2023

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has formally signed the treaty to accede to the CPTPP trade group in New Zealand this morning

• Updated: 16 July 2023

Responding to Ukraine’s needs of today and building for Ukraine’s potential tomorrow will require governments, international institutions, and the private sector to come together in action.

• Updated: 30 June 2023

The UK will today sign a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) designed to grow trade with Utah

• Updated: 22 June 2023

Anne-Marie Trevelyan travels to Western Australia to sign critical minerals pledge and inaugurate new Consulate-General in Perth.

• Updated: 4 April 2023

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch welcome a momentous deal for Airbus and Rolls-Royce to provide new aircraft for Air India.

• Updated: 14 February 2023

The Prime Minister announces the UK’s second Global Investment Summit in October 2023 during a meeting of the Investment Council.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

Kemi Badenoch is visiting Mexico to progress two significant post-Brexit deals, remove barriers to business, and grow both UK exports and investment.

• Updated: 9 February 2023

Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech at the 30th anniversary of the Pontignano Forum discussing the importance of economic security and trade in turbulent times.

• Updated: 8 February 2023

First North Carolina Working Group meeting under the UK-North Carolina trade MoU takes place in Raleigh

• Updated: 24 January 2023

Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan affirms strengths of the UK-Australia trade deal in speech to Australian British Chambers of Commerce.

• Updated: 2 September 2022

Joint Statement in London for the second United Kingdom - Colombia Trade Dialogue, on 19 May 2022

• Updated: 19 May 2022

Minister for Africa Vicky Ford gave a speech at Lancaster House during the UK-Nigeria 7th Economic and Development Forum

• Updated: 27 April 2022

The International Trade Secretary's keynote speech at the Nor-Shipping Conference in Oslo.

• Updated: 4 April 2022

The UK is to support the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the world's largest free trade area initiative.

• Updated: 29 March 2022