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UK-US Trade Deal

Proposals for a bilateral trade deal between the UK and the US, following the referendum for Britain to leave the European Union (EU), raise concerns that food safety and environmental standards in the UK may be weakened. Measures to allow the import of more GM crops might be included in the proposed deal.

Resources

• Press articles
  • Insurge Intelligence: Exposed: The Tory-Trump plan to kill food safety with Brexit chicken (20th February 2018)

  • The Observer: Revealed: rightwing groups plot to ditch EU safety standards on food and drugs (17th February 2018)

  • The Independent: Britain must scrap EU rules and allow chlorine-washed chicken if it wants post-Brexit trade deal with US, Trump adviser says (7th November 2017)

  • Huffington Post: How Brexit Could Force UK Farmers To Lower Standards To Compete With US Meat Market (7th October 2017)

  • STV: UK could strike free trade deals without Scottish consent (19th August 2017)

  • Herald: No Scottish or Welsh government assurances in post-Brexit free trade deal talks (20th August 2017)

  • Stratfor: Agriculture: Sowing the Seeds of Global Trade Competition (3rd August 2017)

  • The Herald: Chlorinated Chicken Brexit: how feeble May endangers Scotland's food industry (30th July)

  • BBC: Inside a US/UK trade deal (25th July 2017)

  • BBC: UK and US to start talks on post-Brexit trade deal (24th July 2017)

  • Sky News: Liam Fox 'open' to importing US chlorinated chicken (24th July 2017)

  • The Independent: Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US (24th July 2017)

  • The Grocer: Three-quarters of Brits would reject US 'frankenfoods' (20th April 2017)

  • Food Navigator: US deal will flood UK market with food people don't want, warns respected academic (24th February 2017)

  • FruitNet: US-UK deal threatens standards (30th January 2017)

  • The Observer: Is chlorinated chicken about to hit our shelves after new US trade deal? (29th January 2017)

• External links
  • APPG REPORT: What impact new trade agreements will have on UK food and farming (10th October 2017)

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