{"id":94426,"date":"2018-07-30T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7780dc43c579d54c4802813e9f31e81b"},"modified":"2018-07-30T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:34:00","slug":"news-story-uk-australia-trade-working-group-joint-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94426","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK-Australia Trade Working Group joint statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Australia-UK Trade Working Group met in London on 25 and 26 July 2018. This was the group\u2019s fourth meeting since it was established in September 2016 by the Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, the United Kingdom\u2019s Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade and the Hon Steven Ciobo MP, Australia\u2019s Minister for Trade, Tourism, and Investment.<\/p>\n<p>Delegations were led by officials from the UK\u2019s Department for International Trade (DIT) and Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). It was attended by representatives from a range of UK and Australian government departments.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions continued to focus on the UK and Australia\u2019s future trade and investment relationship; a recognition of the shared ambition, after the UK leaves the European Union, to start bilateral <abbr title=\"free trade agreement\">FTA<\/abbr> negotiations. Conversations built upon the previous Trade Working Groups, with officials continuing to develop a deep and shared understanding of each other\u2019s domestic systems and trade policy across a number of areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Working Group also provided an opportunity for the UK to set out the work under way to establish its independent trade policy. Officials discussed the recently announced UK consultations on future free trade agreements, of which Australia is one of 3 prospective bilateral deals where the public\u2019s views are sought.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Working Group affirmed the UK and Australia\u2019s shared desire to promote and continue to champion free trade and a robust multilateral trading system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Australia explore their future trade and investment relationship and ambition to start free trade negotiations after the UK has left the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94436,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94426\/revisions\/94436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}