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<p>The Department’s public consultations on the UK’s potential accession to CPTPP,
alongside plans for new bilateral free trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand
and the US, will close on the 26<sup>th</sup> of October 2018. The Department is putting
in place the appropriate mechanisms to ensure that due consideration is given to responses,
so that they effectively inform our overall approach to negotiations with partner
countries. The Department plans to publish responses to all four consultations before
entering into any formal free trade agreement negotiations.</p>
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