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Trade commissioner: No trade talks until Brexit
By EUobserver
The EU trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, has said the UK cannot begin negotiating terms for doing business with the union until after it has left. "First you exit then you negotiate," she told the BBC. After the Brexit process, the UK would become a "third country" under EU law. Trade would be carried out based on WTO rules, meaning tariffs, until a new deal was complete.