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And the other 12 countries in the deal?

It also appears our deals with other countries are far more equitably balanced to enable the partner countries to benefit..... isn`t that what the wealthy nations should be doing?

Well, as far as I can tell, Suriname, with its $2-3b in annual exports ranks #3 of the 13 countries now signed up to the Cariforum deal.

By far and away the biggest economy in that group is the Dominican Republic, and their annual global exports are equivalent to about 10 days of EU exports to the UK!

Which is all to say that they are great deals for the Caribbean countries, and I'm very glad the UK government is doing them. But from a UK economic perspective, in terms of replacing the EU as a trading partner, it's basically just in the noise and not particularly relevant.
 
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