UK secures agreement to continue independent member in WTO procurement deal

Britain said it had secured an agreement in principle on Tuesday to continue as an independent member of the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) after it leaves the European Union.

"The UK thanks all of the GPA parties for having engaged so constructively with us in recent weeks and for the consensus today for the agreement in principle around the UK's accession to the GPA on the basis of our final market access offer of Oct 3," Britain's ambassador, Julian Braithwaite, told Reuters.