<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Hogan: U.S. will wait for Brexit deal before concluding U.K. trade talks</span></b></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">By Jakob Hanke Vela </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Politico Pro</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">05/06/2020</span></div></div><div class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">BRUSSELS — Washington is unlikely to conclude a trade agreement with the U.K. before it knows the future terms of trade between the EU and U.K., the EU’s trade chief Phil Hogan said Wednesday.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“All of the [negotiating] partners I think have indicated, including South Korea today, that they’re prepared to wait to see the outcome of the Brexit negotiations before they come to any conclusions about their bilateral agreement” with Britain, Hogan said at a video event with the Institute of International and European Affairs, a think tank.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“I suspect it will be the same with the United States. They will want to see the issues that the United Kingdom are dealing with the European Union first, because after all we are 450 million people in the European Union,” Hogan said. “There is about 60-70 million people in the United Kingdom. Size matters in trade.”</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and his U.K. counterpart Liz Truss have vowed to push forward talks on a free trade agreement “at an accelerated pace.” Britain sees the talks as a way to pile pressure on Brussels, while Washington hopes to secure a larger <a href="https://pro.politico.eu/news/118640" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 123, 199);" class="">foothold in Europe</span></a> for its food standards.</span></p></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Arthur Stamoulis</div><div class="">Citizens Trade Campaign</div><div class="">(202) 494-8826</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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