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<p>Over the last five years the UK has consolidated stronger trade and investment
partnerships with African countries, supporting businesses to enter and expand across
African markets, and deepening our bilateral engagement to open new trade and investment
opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Over this time the UK has offered almost all African
countries preferential access to its markets as beneficiaries of the European Union’s
unilateral trade preferences scheme or as parties to trade agreements with the EU.
There are 44 African countries that receive duty-free quota-free access to the UK
under EU arrangements that also offer preferential access to a further eight African
countries.</p><p> </p><p>As we leave the EU, we have sought to replicate the effects
of EU trade arrangements and have secured trade continuity with 46 African countries.</p><p>
</p><p>The UK’s trade flows with each African country are published by the Office
for National Statistics.</p>
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