The United Kingdom, which has not progressed on a post-Brexit trade treaty with the United States, is now looking to enter into individual agreements with 20 US states, which, however, will not be binding.

Four MoUs or Economic Partnerships may be unveiled”over the next two months, before things really pick up pace“, assured the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Penny Mordant, in an interview with the British newspaper The Times.

,We need to do this across the United States“, she said, though conceding that such agreements would not be legally binding, nor would they reduce tariffs in the form of a free trade agreement with the federal government.

London negotiates a series of agreements

Since the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, which became effective on January 1, 2021, London has been negotiating all agreements to boost its international trade, and in particular its relations with the United States. To win for Washington’s Promise Hour, without being able to consolidate.

While Donald Trump’s administration was ready to strike a bilateral deal with London and even hold a series of talks, the Biden administration scuttled the process and was in no hurry to restart it. Seems, in spite of a series “transatlantic talksbetween the two countries.