UK signs £15bn trade deal with South Korea in bid to soften blow of losing £634bn in free trade with EU after Brexit

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UK signs £15bn trade deal with South Korea in bid to soften blow of losing £634bn in free trade with EU after Brexit
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The agreement is equivalent to roughly 2 per cent of business with the bloc

Including the deal with South Korea, the 13 accords protect trade totalling £89bn, the government said. That is a fraction of the £634bn in export and import flows between Britain and its largest trading partner, the EU.

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