Britain is discovering the difficult truth about trade deals | Phillip Inman | Business – Business Article
A trade deal, any trade deal: that is all Liam Fox wants from his civil servants. It is not much for an international trade secretary to ask. Especially when the prospect of all-encompassing agreements on imports and exports was held up in the referendum and its aftermath as one of the chief benefits of quitting the European Union. Not least by Fox himself. Wanting a trade deal and securing one are not the same thing, as Fox has found out…