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The UK expects to reach a free trade deal with India and to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in 2023, Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said.
Badenoch visited India in December in an effort to move forward with the deal, which aims to cut tariffs and open opportunities for UK services to operate in India. The UK had previously said it wanted to finalise the deal by the Hindu festival of Diwali last year.
“I’m expecting those to happen this year. What I’m not doing is setting a deadline because we’ve set artificial deadlines before and actually they’ve hindered rather helped negotiations,†Badenoch told Bloomberg News.