“Australia is a really standout example of a nation that has prospered because we have embraced a free trade agenda over the past 20 years”. 9News
“Australia is a really standout example of a nation that has prospered because we have embraced a free trade agenda over the past 20 years or so by concluding free trade agreements with most of the economies, with the United States, with China, with Japan, with the TPP with Indonesia lately,” Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK George Brandis told 9news.com.au in London.
“That is an opportunity that Britain now has too when it breaks free of the European Union … and it takes back control of its trade policy and has the capacity independently of the EU to enter into trade agreements with countries right across the world or trade blocs right across the world. “At the moment the UK is Australia’s seventh biggest trading partner and it’s the fifth largest economy in the world,” he said.
While he would not confirm what types of businesses they are, the High Commissioner said they were ones which expected to be in greater demand in the UK as a result of its separation from the EU. One area that’s being discussed is medical professionals, and negotiations around a new deal to recognise each other’s professional standards.
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