Graham Floater 🇬🇧

Director, Department for Business and Trade

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Services with Switzerland, steel with the US.

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

The Executive Order signed at the G7 has been published in the US Federal Register today. In one week, the US 25% tariff will drop to 7.5% and the 10% aerospace tariff will be removed.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer is delivering for working people in Britain.

Today, he was with @POTUS as he signed an executive order that protects UK businesses, jobs, and workers.

[Jonathan Reynolds @jreynoldsMP]

Delivering on the UK–US trade deal ✅

Great to meet again with US Secretary of Commerce @howardlutnick to discuss progress on our trade deal - including UK autos and steel 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

A HUGE THANKS to my negotiating team who have worked tirelessly day and night over the last days, weeks and months to secure this historic trade deal!!! 🇬🇧 🇺🇲 @UKinUSA @biztradegovuk @biztradegovukNA

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer has secured a first-of-a-kind deal with the US — saving thousands of jobs across the country 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

Boosting British businesses.

Protecting British industry.

Delivering for working people.

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

The priorities of the new Prime Minister will include international relationships.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

➡️ Deliver change
➡️ Reset international relationships
➡️ Return politics to public service

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer’s work to rebuild the UK begins.

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Welcome to our new Minister of State for international trade, Douglas Alexander.

[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

I’m incredibly proud to have started work today at ⁦@biztradegovuk⁩ and to be working with and for the brilliant ⁦@jreynoldsMP⁩ in a role that’s crucial for our central mission to deliver growth. (Here we are in Churchill’s Map Room in the Department).

[Jonathan Reynolds @jreynoldsMP]

With the full squad ready to deliver growth in every part of the UK @biztradegovuk

[Department for Business and Trade @biztradegovuk]

From delivering an industrial strategy to supporting businesses to grow and export, watch as Secretary of State for Business and Trade @jreynoldsMP sets out his ambitions for the Department 👇

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Celebrating the 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 shared values.

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Thanks to @USAmbUK for a great Independence Day celebration at Winfield House. With the amazing @elliegoulding

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Cutting the cake at the🇨🇭embassy in London to celebrate the Swiss Business Hub today. A lovely evening bringing together business friends from the UK and Switzerland. Long may it continue!

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Well done to my whole team who negotiated the Services Mobility Agreement and then spent 2 years of careful development of the Professional Qualifications Agreement signed just now by @KemiBadenoch and @ParmelinG at @biztradegovuk Great work by both countries!

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

We just signed a 🇬🇧🇨🇭 Agreement on Recognition of Professional Qualifications. Ensuring UK-qualified professionals like architects and auditors have a clear system for working in Switzerland - a major UK partner with £24 billion of services trade in 2022. More details to come…

[Department for Business and Trade @biztradegovuk]

📰NEWS: Today the UK and Switzerland will sign a deal on recognition of professional qualifications 🇬🇧🇨🇭

This could allow UK firms in sectors like law and architecture to compete for more contracts in Switzerland, boosting UK services exports.

More 👉 https://t.co/BPF765jAE3

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Great news for Northern Ireland - Gera ting 1000 new green jobs.

[UK Export Finance @UKEF]

Last week, we backed a £50 million loan from @BarclaysCIB for Northern Ireland-based bus manufacturer @Wright_bus, helping them to expand into new markets and generate 1,000 new green jobs.

Hear from Wrightbus on what made the partnership with UKEF so successful 👇

[Department for Culture, Media and Sport @DCMS]

From entertainment to fashion and architecture, creativity is all around us

Today @lucyfrazermp launched a plan, backed by @CreativeIndsUK to maximise the potential of our creative industries, grow them by £50bn and support a million extra jobs by 2030

https://t.co/vW3biuHJYn

[Nigel Huddleston MP @HuddlestonNigel]

📢 Great news – the PM has announced £14 billion of new US investment in the UK.

From a new green hydrogen facility in Hull to firms expanding in Manchester and Birmingham – US firms are choosing the UK as a place to do business 🤝

https://t.co/tDel6TWSDU

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Thanks to the whole team for working on the Atlantic Declaration agreed by @POTUS and @RishiSunak including the launch of negotiations on the Critical Minerals Agreement.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

PM @RishiSunak and @POTUS have agreed an unprecedented economic partnership, which sees us working together more closely than ever before on:

🚛 Combatting threats to our supply chains
🧬 Harnessing the technologies of the future
📈 Growing our economies

👇

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

@MLiebreich @biztradegovuk Thanks Michael - this means a lot from someone with your expertise and knowledge. We’ll keep pushing the boundaries as much as we can.

[Sabina Ciofu @SabinaCiofu]

It’s #digitaltrade campaign week and who better to kick us off on Monday than @GrahamFloater? Keep an eye out for some great insights throughout the week!

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

…and here’s the official announcement. A great achievement both as a trade deal and for Ukraine’s reconstruction of their modern digital economy.

[Department for Business and Trade @biztradegovuk]

NEWS: Today, the UK and Ukraine have signed a ground-breaking new Digital Trade Agreement 🇬🇧🇺🇦

This agreement will help Ukraine rebuild its economy and support livelihoods💪

Read more 👉 https://t.co/auye9JCvwt

[Graham Floater 🇬🇧 @GrahamFloater]

Landmark signature of UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement going live right now via Mansion House.