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EU agrees biggest free trade deal with Japan

Geoff Riley

10th December 2017

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Two of the largest players in adopting bilateral trade deals - the EU and Japan - have concluded another trade deal which is expected to liberalise almost all trade between the two. This was announced on the same day that the UK reached initial agreement with the EU on the first stage of the Brexit negotiations.

According to a report in the Financial Times, the agreement, which took 4 years to negotiate, covers 600 million people and accounts for approximately 30% of global GDP.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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