UK Expects India Free Trade Deal in 2023, Badenoch Says

The UK expects to reach a free trade deal with India and to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in 2023, Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said in an interview Friday.

Badenoch visited India in December in an effort to move forward with the deal, which aims to cut tariffs and open opportunities for UK services to operate in India. The UK had previously said it wanted to finalize the deal by the Hindu festival of Diwali last year.

“I’m expecting those to happen this year. What I’m not doing is setting a deadline because we’ve set artificial deadlines before ...