Trade Deals with ASEAN Countries

Part of International Trade – in the House of Commons at on 25 February 2021.

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Photo of Emily Thornberry Emily Thornberry Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade

I am delighted to see that the Secretary of State is answering questions about the 2.9% of our global trade that we have with ASEAN countries, having refused to answer questions about the 47% of our trade with Europe. However, as that is clearly her priority, can she tell us this: why has she decided not to suspend Cambodia’s trade preferences, given the escalating human rights abuses in that country? How bad would these abuses need to get before the so-called “last resort” was reached?