On a potential free trade deal with the US, he told ITV’s Robert Peston:<\/span> “I’d be very surprised if Liz Truss has any chance of negotiating a free trade agreement with America in the next couple of years. <\/span><\/p>\n “It’s not going to be a priority for the Joe Biden presidency… For exactly these complicated bilateral issues.”<\/span><\/p>\n The last round of formal negotiations with the US ended on October 30, 2020.<\/p>\n Following that date, the UK had hoped to secure a series of mini deals with Donald Trump’s administration in order to push forward with a Free Trade Agreement in 2021.<\/p>\n JUST IN: Brexit LIVE: Macron’s banking chief gloats about £151bn asset grab<\/strong><\/p>\n We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Simon Hoare, chair of the Northern Ireland select committee and North Dorset MP told the <\/span><\/span>Express.co.uk that a trade deal with Mr Biden may not be agreed in 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n Despite the desperate need of a deal with the US, Mr Hoare admitted the “steam has gone out” of plans for an agreement this year.<\/span><\/p>\n He added: “I’m not sure on a trade deal will be agreed this year.<\/p>\n “It does seem quite a bit of the steam has dropped out about the US-UK trade deal talks.”<\/p>\n He did, however, add that the relationship between the President-elect and Mr Johnson may spark progress in other initiatives which will be the launchpad to a future treaty.<\/p>\n Mr Hoare said: “A trade is something nice to have.<\/p>\n My view is that we must protect our food and agricultural standards in any deal we do.<\/p>\n “I would’ve thought the two leaders will use the areas of which they agree as the launchpad to progress other initiatives of which a trade deal is one.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/Ed-Balls-UK-trade-deal-will-not-be-a-priority-for-the-Biden-administration-1386972.jpg?r=1611219500923\")
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