Claim: The UK's potential accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership could mean more than 99% of UK exports to member countries become eligible for tariff-free trade.
Fact-check: Express overstates impact of UK joining trans-Pacific trade bloc - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure refers to the total proportion of uk goods exports which would be eligible for tariff-free access to cptpp countries under the agreement. but the government says 85.4% of goods can already be exported tariff-free, which means joining the bloc would result in around 15% of uk goods exports becoming newly eligible for tariff-free trade.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Hannah Smith
Date published: 2023-02-08T00:00:00