Truss sets up India trade boost
LIZ TRUSS will this week step up her bid to boost Britain’s postBrexit trade with a visit to the huge Indian plant producing the UK-developed Covid vaccine.
The International Trade Secretary is due to go to the Serum Institute of India – the world’s largest vaccine producer. It is producing the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.
Ms Truss, on a five-day visit to deepen trade links with India, yesterday met the country’s commerce and industry minister, Piyush Goyal, in New Delhi. Last night, she said it was ‘excellent’ to meet Mr Goyal and business leaders to ‘identify opportunities to deepen trade and investment. Looking f orward to f urther talks tomorrow’.
Mr Goyal praised ‘the first post Covid-19 visit of a Trade Minister to India’. UK trade with India is currently worth £23 billion a year but it has been said trade could hit £100 billion post-Brexit.