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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2020, file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives to attend a cabinet meeting of senior government ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO in London. Raab is heading to Southeast Asia Monday, June 21, 2021, on start a three-nation trip as London looks to promote closer ties and trade with the region following its exit from the European Union. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP, File)
British FM heads to Southeast Asia looking for closer ties

By David Rising Jun. 21, 2021 06:20 AM EDT

Non-EU member Norway reaches post-Brexit trade deal with UK

By Jan M. Olsen Jun. 04, 2021 09:14 AM EDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Non-European Union member Norway said Friday it has reached a post-Brexit trade deal with its greatest trading partner, Britain,...

FILE - In this Friday, March 26, 2021 file photo, a person walks past a temporarily closed clothes shop on Regent Street in central London, where non-essential shops are closed during England's third coronavirus lockdown. The British economy contracted by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021, a relatively modest contraction given that the country was in the midst of a strict lockdown to combat a second wave of the coronavirus. The Office for National Statistics also said Wednesday May 12, 2021, that the economy even managed to grow by 2.1% in March when the country began easing some restrictions. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
UK economy showed resilience ahead of big lockdown easing

By Pan Pylas May. 12, 2021 02:42 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Porto, Portugal, Saturday, May 8, 2021. On Saturday, EU leaders held an online summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering trade, climate change and help with India's COVID-19 surge. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira)
EU, India try again to clinch trade deal, sidelining China

By Barry Hatton May. 08, 2021 11:15 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European Council President Charles Michel, left, wait for the start of the opening ceremony at an EU summit at the Alfandega do Porto Congress Center in Porto, Portugal, Friday, May 7, 2021. European Union leaders meet for a summit in Portugal on Friday, sending a signal they see the threat from COVID-19 on their continent as waning amid a quickening vaccine rollout. Their talks hope to repair some of the damage the coronavirus has caused in the bloc, in such areas as welfare and employment. (Tiago Petinga, Pool via AP)
EU leaders attend summit in person for 1st time this year

By Barry Hatton May. 07, 2021 02:21 AM EDT

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a Welsh flag face mask during a visit to Barry Island, Wales, as part of the Welsh Conservative Party's Senedd election campaign, Monday, May 3, 2021. (Matthew Horwood/PA via AP)
UK announces plan for 'quantum leap' in relations with India

By Danica Kirka And Sylvia Hui May. 04, 2021 05:33 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement during the second day of a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
EU lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade treaty

By Samuel Petrequin Apr. 28, 2021 03:29 AM EDT

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits pharmaceutical business CSL in Melbourne, Australia Friday, March 26, 2021. Morrison welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's criticism, made in a speech in Brussels, of "China's blatant economic coercion of Australia." (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)
Australian envoy reportedly describes China as 'vindictive'

By Rod Mcguirk Mar. 26, 2021 02:18 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Biden treads carefully around Trump's combative trade policy

By Paul Wiseman Feb. 09, 2021 12:45 PM EST

President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Biden treads carefully around Trump's combative trade policy

By Paul Wiseman Feb. 09, 2021 12:03 PM EST

FILE — In this Friday, April 24, 2020 file photo, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visits a field hospital in Johannesburg. Ramaphosa has announced he has gone into quarantine after coming into contact with a dinner guest who has tested positive for COVID-19. He came into contact with a guest at a dinner of 35 people in Johannesburg last weekend, the president's spokesman said Wednesday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
South Africa's president criticizes 'vaccine nationalism'

By Mogomotsi Magome Jan. 26, 2021 07:18 AM EST

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday Jan. 22, 2021. Johnson announced that the new variant of COVID-19, which was first discovered in the south of England, may be linked with a possible increase in the mortality rate. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)
Britain's Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal

By Aamer Madhani Jan. 23, 2021 05:48 PM EST

Nebraska Gov. Pete Rickets speaks during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Nebraska has continued to shrink this month. The state said there were 475 people being treated for COVID-19 Sunday in Nebraska hospitals. That was up slightly from the previous day but down from 517 at the start of January. The number of hospitalizations is less than half of the November peak, but it remains more than double where it was at the start of October. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Mexico to use trade deal to make sure workers get vaccine

By Christopher Sherman Jan. 13, 2021 11:27 AM EST

Australian treasurer won't say if he was stopping China sale

By Rod Mcguirk Jan. 13, 2021 12:40 AM EST
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s treasurer on Wednesday declined to comment on whether he had intended to block a Chinese state-owned company’s takeover...

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020 file photo, a farmer discs over a corn field on at a farm north of Woodward, Iowa. The corn was damaged beyond salvage by the recent derecho. Thanks to the government paying nearly 40% of their income, U.S. farmers are expected to end 2020 with higher profit than 2019 and the best net income in seven years, the Department of Agriculture said in its latest farm income forecast. Farmers faced challenges throughout 2020 that included the impact of trade disputes; low prices that drove down cash receipts and weather difficulties. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP File)
Federal checks salvage otherwise dreadful 2020 for US farms

By David Pitt Dec. 31, 2020 01:10 PM EST

British citizens, who live in Belgium, hold candles and Union flags during an anti Brexit vigil in front of the UK mission building at the European quarter in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. On Thursday, the United Kingdom is finally moving out. At 11pm London time, midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels, Britain will economically and practically leave the 27-nation bloc, 11 months after its formal political departure. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

By Jill Lawless Dec. 31, 2020 06:34 AM EST

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier address a media conference on Brexit negotiations at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)
What now for British economy with UK-EU trade deal reached?

By Pan Pylas Dec. 24, 2020 02:23 PM EST

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. The breakthrough on Thursday came after months of tense and often testy negotiations that whittled differences down to three key issues: fair-competition rules, mechanisms for resolving future disputes and fishing rights. (Paul Grover/Pool Photo via AP)
Breakthrough: UK and EU reach post-Brexit trade agreement

By Raf Casert And Jill Lawless Dec. 24, 2020 01:59 AM EST

In this Sept. 11, 2012, file photo, a four-wheel-drive vehicle follows a large mining truck as it makes its way to the top of a Boggabri coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney. Australia’s prime minister said Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, that China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
Australian PM says China coal ban would breach WTO rules

By Rod Mcguirk Dec. 14, 2020 09:41 PM EST

Britain's chief negotiator David Frost leaves after a meeting with European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier in Brussels, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Facing yet another self-imposed Brexit deadline on Sunday, the chief negotiators from the European Union and United Kingdom were making last-ditch efforts to scale differences on a trade deal that have proved insurmountable for the best part of the year. (AP photo/Francisco Seco)
Going 'the extra mile': UK, EU keep up Brexit trade talks

By Raf Casert And Jill Lawless Dec. 13, 2020 10:10 AM EST