U.K. and Japan Start Post-Brexit Talks to Replace EU Deal
- Britain currently benefits from EU-Japan deal signed in 2018
- U.K. aiming to improve on EU accord, avoid disruption in 2021
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The U.K. and Japan start trade talks Tuesday, aiming to replace the free-trade agreement that Britain currently enjoys with the country through the European Union.
The British government, whose trade with the world’s third-largest economy was worth more than 31 billion pounds ($39 billion) last year, said it intends to build on the existing EU-Japan deal, signed in 2018, which the U.K. will no longer benefit from when it completes its exit from the bloc at the end of 2020.