The UK economy and businesses would benefit from a deeper trading agreement with the EU, says director general of the British Chambers of Commerce Shevaun Haviland.
Ms Haviland believes the time is right for a renegotiation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) signed in December 2020, while stressing that tensions around the Northern Ireland Protocol also need to be resolved.
Speaking at the Chambers Wales international trade event at City Hall in Cardiff she said: "The Northern Ireland Protocol has to be sorted. We want to see a negotiated agreement on that and then move on rapidly to what we can do around the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. When the TCA was negotiated, everybody was clear that it wasn't a finished product. It was done with a view that we would then go back and review the areas that weren't complete and that hasn't happened."
