Promoting Welsh Trade with the United States of America

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 6 March 2018.

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Photo of Mark Reckless Mark Reckless Conservative 1:57, 6 March 2018

The First Minister went to the United States promoting a free trade deal between the UK and the United States. He came back saying we have to leave it to the EU. Isn't the truth that his policy of a new customs union with the EU is the worst of all worlds, in that we would have no independent trade policy yet we would have no say and no vote over the EU's trade policy? As with Turkey, the EU would set our trade policy and we would have no say. The US or Russia could specifically target UK exports and we would have no power to respond. How on earth would that be in our interests?