About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/506dcab8fb1519b98561226ac753c1f704827b40350b507f741dd99f

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/506dcab8fb1519b98561226ac753c1f704827b40350b507f741dd99f Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:ClaimReview
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating	not verifiable
schema:url	http://fullfact.org/economy/express-cptpp-exports/
schema:text	“The UK is making good progress in negotiating its own accession to CPTPP which could mean more than 99 per cent of UK exports to member countries become eligible for tariff-free trade.” An article published in the Daily Express on 6 February (also online) repeats a misleading claim about the impact of Britain’s possible accession to a major trade bloc—despite the fact that the newspaper has previously amended a different article making a similar claim after being contacted by Full Fact. The article published this week says that if the UK’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is successful, it could mean “more than 99 per cent of UK exports to member countries become eligible for tariff-free trade”. The CPTPP is a free-trade agreement currently made up of 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas—Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The UK is currently involved in negotiations over its potential accession to the agreement after it formally applied to join in February 2021. It already has free-trade agreements with some of these countries individually, including Japan and Canada. The “more than 99%” figure referred to by the Express is based on analysis by the Department for International Trade (now the Department for Business and Trade) published in the government’s strategic case for joining the agreement. It states: “Accession could see 99.9% of UK exports being eligible for tariff-free trade with CPTPP members.” However, as we’ve previously explained, the same document also says that 85.4% of UK goods exports are already eligible for tariff-free access to CPTPP member countries. So joining the CPTPP would result in around 15% of UK goods exports becoming newly eligible for tariff-free trade, rather than more than 99%. We’ve contacted the Daily Express for comment and will update this article if it responds. Image courtesy of Hector Galarza
schema:mentions	Hector New Zealand national football team Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Daily Express Brunei Trans-Pacific Partnership Vietnam Singapore Peru Malaysia Chile Japan Canada Mexico United Kingdom Full Fact Free trade agreement
schema:reviewRating	This figure refers to the total proportion of UK goods exports which would be eligible for tariff-free access to CPTPP countries under the agreement. But the government says 85.4% of goods can already be exported tariff-free, which means joining the bloc would result in around 15% of UK goods exports becoming newly eligible for tariff-free trade.
schema:author	full-fact
schema:datePublished	2023-02-08 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/8a37d5555c1d3c11589f07c29e0bc44d302afdaef0a660f4dfa787a8

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software