is a matter of deep interest to the United States.” Furthermore, the British public needed to know that the Brexit campaign’s hope that it would be able, rapidly, to strike a new trade treaty between an “independent” Britain and the United States was based on false premises. America’s focus in trade negotiations was on the big blocs. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the EU—the Atlantic counterpart to the TPP in Asia—was the key to the future. “Maybe some point down the line there might be a U.K.-U.S. trade agreement,” but “it’s not going to
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