Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 18393

Trade Agreements: Switzerland

Tabled: 6 December 2024
Answered: 11 December 2024
Named Day

Question

Ruth Jones

LabourNewport West and Islwyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress his Department has made on including an ambitious intellectual property protection framework in the UK-Swiss free trade deal.

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
The fifth round of negotiations on an enhanced free trade agreement with Switzerland took place in London in October 2024. As part of that, negotiations on intellectual property continued to advance across a number of rights areas. The UK aims to agree a ...

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