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British activists incensed by claim that Obama will lobby for UK to stay in EU

14 March 2016

Although the report also raised as an option Britain signing onto the North American Free Trade Agreement, report co-author Swati Dhingra said she does not envisage that happening. Even if it did, Dhingra said, it would not happen immediately. She recalled that negotiations between the U.S. and Canada had taken place over about four years in the mid-1980s before the deal was finalized. (The U.S.-Canada free trade pact was concluded in 1988, paving the way for NAFTA - bringing together the U.S., Canada and Mexico - in the early 1990s.)

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Life after Brexit: What are the UK's options outside the European Union?, Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson, CEP Brexit Analysis No.01, February 2016

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Swati Dhingra webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
Trade Programme webpage

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