Britain starts work on its role as an independent WTO member after Brexit
London — Britain had started working on becoming an independent member of the World Trade Organisation after Brexit, using the EU’s current terms as the template, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said on Monday. The UK is at present represented in the 164-member body through its membership of the EU, but in leaving the bloc it will need to establish terms for its membership. "To minimise disruption to global trade as we leave the EU, over the coming period the government will prepare the necessary draft schedules which replicate as far as possible our current obligations," Fox said in a statement to the House of Commons. "The government will undertake this process in dialogue with the WTO membership. This work is a necessary part of our leaving the EU. It does not prejudge the outcome of the eventual UK-EU trading arrangements."
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