UK Signs First Major Post-Brexit Trade Deal With Japan

Britain's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi bump elbows during their news conference following a signing ceremony of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2020. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Britain signed its first major post-Brexit free trade agreement with Japan on Friday, in what the government hailed as a “historic moment”.

The UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was signed by International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu in Tokyo.