recent survey<\/a> conducted by the British Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Insights Unit, more than half (54 percent) of exporters think the U.K.-EU trade deal is not helping them grow sales.<\/p>\nWhile some of the upcoming trade barriers are not directly in scope of the U.K.-EU \u2018reset\u2019 deal, McReynolds said he was \u201cconfident that the U.K. government are live to all these issues and where possible will be seeking to negotiate mitigations. But these will take time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seeking closer alignment<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has raised hopes of a broader \u2018reset\u2019 that goes beyond the parameters agreed at the Brexit summit last May. A five-year review of the post-Brexit trade deal is also expected this year. <\/p>\n
In an interview with the BBC, Starmer said that he wanted the U.K. to seek \u201ceven closer alignment\u201d with the single market.<\/p>\n
Beyond agrifood and energy deals, \u201cthere are other areas where we should consider if it\u2019s in our interests to [\u2026] align with the single market,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that needs to be considered on an issue-by-issue, sector-by-sector basis, but we\u2019ve already done it with food and agriculture, and that will be implemented this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he pushed back at suggestions the U.K. should rejoin the customs union, adding: \u201cWe are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.K. has not yet designated a competent authority for Northern Ireland, and discussions between EU and U.K.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[3971,6850,768,802,748,2813,1395,8514,6852,2814,12495,1396,6314,1305,1312,5398,35,2000,299,5187,1699,10686,4884,475,806,678,807,2441,809,1144,2661,8753,2443,48,6861,1218,6648,479,1200,1201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-681939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-beef","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-brexit","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-carbon","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-customs","16":"tag-customs-union","17":"tag-data","18":"tag-development","19":"tag-dumping-duties","20":"tag-e-commerce","21":"tag-electric-vehicles","22":"tag-electricity","23":"tag-emissions","24":"tag-energy","25":"tag-eu","26":"tag-europe","27":"tag-european","28":"tag-european-union","29":"tag-fertilizers","30":"tag-great-britain","31":"tag-imports","32":"tag-industry","33":"tag-ireland","34":"tag-keir-starmer","35":"tag-markets","36":"tag-negotiations","37":"tag-northern-ireland","38":"tag-oil","39":"tag-palm-oil","40":"tag-regulation","41":"tag-rights","42":"tag-single-market","43":"tag-steel","44":"tag-supply-chains","45":"tag-tariffs","46":"tag-tax","47":"tag-trade","48":"tag-uk","49":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}