Britain eyes early free trade pact with Australia after leaving EU
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SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab hopes a free trade deal with Australia will be one of the first such pacts to be secured, now that Britain has left the European Union, he said on Thursday.After formally leaving the EU on Jan. 31, Britain entered a transition period that allows it to negotiate future ties with Brussels and begin talks with other major economies, such as the United States and Japan."We have a trade relationship already worth 17 billion pounds, but..