USTR Lighthizer Says Compromise Still Needed to Reach UK Deal
In an interview with the BBC, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that finishing the U.S.-United Kingdom free trade deal should be palatable to the next administration, with its language around labor standards and climate change, but U.K. resistance on…
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agriculture standards is one of the obstacles to getting it finished in the next month. “We're both leaders in the world on digital trade, on financial services. And I think we could do an awful lot to write the rules together, the best rules together,” he said, according to a story published Dec. 17. “There's a short period of time they're going to have to try to wrap this up. But I think it's something that can happen. It'll require compromise on both sides.”