UK Appoints 10 New Trade Envoys to Bolster Global Trade Opportunities
The United Kingdom appointed 10 trade envoys to boost British business in markets such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the U.K.'s Department for International Trade said Aug. 23. The new positions were created to "help UK businesses find new…
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export and investment opportunities and promote UK trade in their allocated market," and include seven members of Parliament, the release said. The U.K. already has trade envoys in more than 60 countries. The new envoys are Lord Ian Botham to Australia; Baroness Kate Hoey to Ghana; and MPs Stephen Timms to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, David Mundell to New Zealand, Mark Eastwood to Pakistan, Marco Longhi to Brazil, Conor Burns to Canada, John Woodcock to Tanzania, Felicity Buchan to Iceland and Norway, and Jeffrey Donaldson to Cameroon, bolstering his current role as trade envoy to Egypt.