Two days after the announcement by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that the United Kingdom was planning to leave the single market and negotiate a free-trade agreement and a customs agreement with the EU after it leaves the bloc ('Brexit'), the European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, warned on Thursday 19 January that an EU/UK pre-trade agreement would not take priority over the 15 other trade agreements already being negotiated between the EU and third countries.
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