{"id":102895,"date":"2026-07-13T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/102895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:30:45","slug":"switzerland-and-britain-agree-to-extend-free-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/102895\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Britain agree to extend free trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c2aeb336640a06c710876045e88812bc155221fb-91739350.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Switzerland and the United Kingdom agree on a trade deal\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland and the United Kingdom agree on a trade deal            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland and Britain have concluded negotiations on an expanded free trade agreement. The agreement, which focuses on services, is intended to promote trade, investment and jobs.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        July 13, 2026 &#8211; 16:34\n<\/p>\n<p>Companies in sectors such as financial services and the natural sciences are set to benefit particularly from this, as Swiss president Guy Parmelin and British business secretary Peter Kyle explained in Bern. This will reduce administrative barriers and improve market access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/business\/switzerland-and-uk-we-are-both-islands-but-in-very-different-ways\/48325764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ Switzerland and Britain \u201cboth \u2018islands\u2019 but in different ways\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it should become easier for business travellers and skilled workers to operate across borders. Added to this are improved framework conditions for data flows and the protection of intellectual property. Kyle described it as a \u201chistoric deal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Parmelin, the aim is to have the free trade agreement ready for signature by the end of this year. This will be followed by the respective domestic approval procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f92f59d2ad0dd0d7c10ebc98f7797d1-flags-data.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"British and Swiss flags\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland and Britain pursue renewed free trade agreement    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        May 15, 2023                    <\/p>\n<p>                Negotiations for a new free trade agreement between Switzerland and Britain will start on May 22.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/business\/switzerland-and-britain-to-pursue-renewed-free-trade-agreement\/48514472\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Switzerland and Britain pursue renewed free trade agreement<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland and the United Kingdom agree on a trade deal Keystone-SDA Switzerland and Britain have concluded negotiations on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,301,564,368,114,2143,100,103,17],"class_list":["post-102895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-foreign-affairs","tag-beat-global-trade","tag-beat-trade-policy","tag-business","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116914331857767573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}