The Department for International Trade has launched the UK’s first International Trade Week, as it bids to get more British firms exporting to reach a £1 trillion a year export target by 2030. 

Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan kick started the inaugural International Trade Week on Monday, urging UK businesses to sell to the world with DIT’s new ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’ campaign. 

To discuss the initiative, IEA Communications & Public Affairs Officer Kieran Neild-Ali sat down with Paul O'Donnell, Public Affairs Director at the Institute of Export & International Trade and Shanker Singham, IEA Trade Fellow and former Director of the International Trade and Competition Unit (ITCU) of the Institute of Economic Affairs.