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Turkey, UK to sign free trade agreement on Tuesday, Erdoğan says

by DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL Dec 28, 2020 - 6:02 pm GMT+3
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Dec. 28, 2020. (AA Photo)
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Dec. 28, 2020. (AA Photo)
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Turkey and the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement on Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.

The pact with the U.K., coming days before Brexit's transitional period ends, will be Turkey's "most important trade deal" since its 1995 Customs Union with the EU, Erdoğan said.

"A new era begins starting in 2021, one in which both Turkey and the U.K. will win," he said.

The president also underlined that as of Dec. 25, Turkey's annual exports hit $166 billion, shooting past the country's targets for all of 2020.

"We are closing our current account deficit with high value-added investments and reducing our need for external financing," he said.

The landmark Turkey-U.K. free trade agreement set to be signed on Tuesday will usher a new era in bilateral economic and trade ties starting Jan. 1, Turkey's trade minister also said later in the day.

"This new era in our relations will be mutually beneficial for both Turkey and the U.K.," Ruhsar Pekcan tweeted.

The pact will form a new basis and framework for bilateral relations, she said.

The free trade agreement, "which aims at furthering our trade volume, represents a critical milestone on the way to deepen our relations on a win-win basis," Pekcan said.

She added that the pact, negotiations for which started in 2017, represents the second-most important trade deal for Turkey following the 1995 Customs Union with the EU.

"I wish this agreement will bring fruitful outcomes for our countries and business circles."

On Sunday, noting that the U.K. is Turkey's second-biggest export market, Britain's Financial Times newspaper quoted International Trade Secretary Liz Truss as saying: "The deal we expect to sign this week locks in tariff-free trading arrangements and will help support our trading relationship, worth £18.6 billion last year."

On Dec. 24, the U.K. and EU reached a post-Brexit trade agreement after five years of bitter negotiations.

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