Tag: Liz Truss

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 14:59 UTC

  Liverpool will host summit of G7 Foreign and Development ministers in December

  

  The United Kingdom is scheduled to host a summit of Foreign and Development Ministers from the G7 next month in the city of Liverpool. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will welcome counterparts from the US, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, and the EU over 3 days, from Friday 10 until Sunday 12 December.

• Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands ends a great performance, as the Manchester curtain comes down

  

  The curtain came down in Manchester on Wednesday, putting an end to the 2021 main English political parties conferences, with the Falkland Islands delegates and stand performing an excellent campaign, ahead of the Climate Change summit to be held in Glasgow hosted by London, and the coming events of next year when the Falklands will be “Looking Forward at 40”.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  Busy start for Falklands' stand at Manchester Conservative conference

  

  A delegation from the Falkland Islands is now installed in Manchester City attending the Conservative Party Conference21, which took off on Sunday 3 October and will extend until Wednesday 6 October.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  UK will formally apply to join the Trans Pacific Partnership

  

  The United Kingdom will formally apply to join one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, deepening trade ties with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will speak to ministers in Japan and New Zealand to request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with formal negotiations set to start this year.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  UK Trade Secretary pledges to fight US tariffs on Scotch whisky

  

  British Trade Secretary Liz Truss pledged to fight U.S tariffs on Scotch whiskey, calling them “unacceptable and unfair” in an op-ed in the Telegraph on Sunday. “I will fight to consign these unfair tariffs to the bin of history”, she wrote while accusing the European Union of failing to protect British and Scottish interests.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Japan aims to clinch a trade deal with Britain by end of July: auto tariffs, main interest of Tokyo

  

  Japan and Britain aim to clinch a trade deal by the end of July and Tokyo wants to secure at least the same automobile tariffs as it has in its existing European Union trade pact, Tokyo’s chief negotiator said.

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  UK Trade secretary tells WTO conference, “Britain is back” as a sovereign nation

  

  Britain is looking forward to “taking back control” of its trade policy after it exits the European Union later this month, a government minister told the World Trade Organization on Wednesday. Speaking at a WTO conference, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said her country was preparing to seize “a golden opportunity.”

• Tuesday, September 8th 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  European protesting farmers promised a €500m aid package by Brussels

  

  European Union agriculture ministers have announced a €500m aid package after thousands of farmers protested on the streets of Brussels. The mainly Belgian, French and German farmers were protesting against plummeting prices for their produce.