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Trade Agreements: USA

Commons · Question 38273 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 18 Mar 2025

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Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what are the criteria by which it would be determined whether any prospective trade treaty between the UK and the US that does not deal with substantially all trade would be subject to scrutiny under t

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Answered by Douglas Alexander, 18 Mar 2025

Part 2 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 is the statutory framework for the parliamentary scrutiny of all legally binding international agreements, regardless of the extent to which the relevant international agreement deals with trade,...