News / CPATPP may save UK exporters from Canada free trade deal failure

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For UK automotive manufacturers, a new trade route to Canada beckons – via the Pacific.

Not literally, of course – nobody is contemplating sending auto parts or finished cars from Felixstowe or Sheerness to Vancouver via Asia – but involvement with an Asian trading bloc could make up for the UK government’s failure to sign a free trade deal with Canada.

Negotiations began in March 2022, failed to reach an agreement and, in January, with both sides at loggerheads over access to ...