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31/01/2017 GMT

All Change for Global Trade?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, All Change for Global Trade?

With Brexit and President Trump's rise, has the tide turned against global free trade?

With Brexit and the rise of President Trump, has the tide turned against global free trade? We hear from Britain's aerospace industry, and businesses along the US-Mexico border.

With Brexit and President Trump's rise, has the tide turned against global free trade? Paul Everitt, chief executive of the ADS Group, the trade body for companies in the UK Aerospace and  Defence industries, tells us what's at stake for his sector. Ryan Loyd reports from the town of San Antonio in southern Texas, not far from the Mexican border, speaking to companies worried about President Trump's threat to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. But Shanker Singham, director of economic policy and prosperity studies at the Legatum Institute, a London-based educational charity focused on alleviating poverty, says that while President Trump's rhetoric on trade sounds protectionist, the details may prove otherwise.

(Picture: Marker on the US-Mexico border; Credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

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