> #Britain targets first state-by-state U.S. trade deals next month
>**LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) – Britain said it was in discussion with around 20 U.S. states to secure individual trade deals as soon as next month, trade policy minister Penny Mordaunt told parliament on Thursday.**
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> In the absence of progress towards an overarching UK-U.S. trade agreement British negotiators are seeking to secure state level agreements, including a deal with Texas by October this year
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> “There’s been considerable progress on this and we are in discussions with around 20 U.S. states,” Mordaunt said.
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> “We are going to do a state level agreement with Texas we hope by October of this year, and we will start signing these agreements with U.S. states next month. The first eight that we have in the pipeline will be equivalent to 20% of the United States economy,” Mordaunt said in parliament.
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> Reporting by Farouq Suleiman; editing by William James
As long as my Buffalo Trace is reduced in price please Kentucky!
The problem with state deals is that they have free trade between states. A deal with one is a deal with all if they want it.
So he has to go around the US federal government because as the US government is a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, Biden and the Democrats aren’t dealing with the UK government for threatening that with brexit.
So this means boris is probably dealing with republican regime states only.
Expect yet more imported culture war courtesy of the trumpists.
The dreams they used to have:
>News story
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>Red Tape Challenge
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>The Government has launched a website challenging the public to help us cut unnecessary regulations.
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>From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
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>[Published 7 April 2011](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/red-tape-challenge–7)
Can you negotiate a trade deal with individual states? Foreign trade (tariffs, regulations) and international treaties are pretty clearly reserved for the federal government by the constitution.
Of course, it will be hard to negotiate such a deal as we cannot accept any conditions or requirements since that would impede our sovereignty…
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> #Britain targets first state-by-state U.S. trade deals next month
>**LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) – Britain said it was in discussion with around 20 U.S. states to secure individual trade deals as soon as next month, trade policy minister Penny Mordaunt told parliament on Thursday.**
>
> In the absence of progress towards an overarching UK-U.S. trade agreement British negotiators are seeking to secure state level agreements, including a deal with Texas by October this year
>
> “There’s been considerable progress on this and we are in discussions with around 20 U.S. states,” Mordaunt said.
>
> “We are going to do a state level agreement with Texas we hope by October of this year, and we will start signing these agreements with U.S. states next month. The first eight that we have in the pipeline will be equivalent to 20% of the United States economy,” Mordaunt said in parliament.
>
> Reporting by Farouq Suleiman; editing by William James
As long as my Buffalo Trace is reduced in price please Kentucky!
The problem with state deals is that they have free trade between states. A deal with one is a deal with all if they want it.
So he has to go around the US federal government because as the US government is a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, Biden and the Democrats aren’t dealing with the UK government for threatening that with brexit.
So this means boris is probably dealing with republican regime states only.
Expect yet more imported culture war courtesy of the trumpists.
The dreams they used to have:
>News story
>
>Red Tape Challenge
>
>The Government has launched a website challenging the public to help us cut unnecessary regulations.
>
>From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
>
>[Published 7 April 2011](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/red-tape-challenge–7)
Can you negotiate a trade deal with individual states? Foreign trade (tariffs, regulations) and international treaties are pretty clearly reserved for the federal government by the constitution.
Of course, it will be hard to negotiate such a deal as we cannot accept any conditions or requirements since that would impede our sovereignty…