Following Brexit, the UK Government is keen to boost trade with countries outside the EU. Our interactive maps show the extent of the UK's global network of free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. You may also be interested in our business-friendly guide to the UK-EU Brexit trade deal.
Last updated September 2025.
The UK currently has free trade agreements in force with over 60 countries and is in the process of negotiating new trade agreements with a number of other territories. See the notes below for further explanation relating to this interactive map. The map allows you to zoom in on a particular geographic area. You can also look up a particular country by using the search box at the top left of the map.
When you click on a country with which the UK either has a free trade agreement or is in negotiations to conclude one, you can access additional information about that country as follows:
On 30 June 2025, the first part of the new UK-US trade deal came into force, although negotiations are ongoing as to the other aspects of the deal such as plans to exempt the UK exempt from the 25% US tariff on steel imports. The UK has also reached agreement with India on the terms of their trade agreement, which is now awaiting ratification. The map indicates a number of other countries with which the UK is in the process of negotiating entirely new trade agreements (coloured light green) – these include the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).
The UK still seems to be looking to expand its existing continuity trade agreements with Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Switzerland (these countries are coloured dark green because there is already a trade agreement in place with the UK; the negotiations are aimed at improving and updating such arrangements). However, negotiations to improve the existing deal with Israel were suspended in 2025 due to concerns over the Israeli Government's actions in Gaza. Similarly, talks with Canada to improve the exiting arrangements were suspended in early 2024 owing to disagreements over agricultural market access. The UK is also looking at a number of digital trade agreements (these typically build on existing arrangements – recent examples of concluded deals on digital trade include Ukraine and Singapore). Lastly, it is conducting tariff reviews with a number of countries and considering whether to join the Regional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (which would ease "red tape" requirements for goods containing inputs from member countries).
In December 2024, the UK Government acceded to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). This means UK businesses can now benefit from the terms of the CPTPP when trading with the following parties: Japan, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia, Brunei and Australia. Canada and Mexico have not yet ratified the UK’s accession to CPTPP; UK businesses will not be able to trade with these parties under CPTPP until 60 days after ratification has taken place. However, the UK already has bilateral post-Brexit continuity trade agreements in place with both Canada and Mexico.
The UK's accession has taken the total membership of the group to 12 states. The problem with displaying these on the map is that the UK already has bilateral trade agreements with 9 of the CPTPP's current members (Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam). For these countries, CPTPP membership is not indicated through use of a different colour, but in the Additional Notes field for the relevant country. The only other current CPTPP members are Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia. As the UK does not have existing bilateral trade agreements with these 2 countries, we have changed the colour coding to dark green in order to reflect the impact of the UK acceding to the CPTPP.
PLEASE NOTE: This information provides a high-level overview of the UK's free trade agreements and related arrangements such as agreements on customs cooperation or mutual recognition of product conformity. This is neither to be relied on as legal advice, nor is it intended to be a comprehensive overview or description of the provisions of those agreements. If you need more information, please get in touch. Much of the information was obtained from the UK Government's guidance on UK trade agreements with non-EU countries and its trade and investment factsheets.
Bilateral Investment Treaties or BITs give investors from the UK protection where they make an investment in the "host state" (i.e. the other party to the BIT) – and vice versa where the other party's investors make investments in the UK. In particular, they allow the investor to take action in their own right to protect their investment or obtain compensation (as opposed to having to ask their own government to raise the matter on a state-to-state basis). For more detail, see BITs and the post-Brexit investment landscape.
As highlighted by our interactive map, the UK has an extensive network of BITs. This makes it a potentially attractive jurisdiction for incorporating investment vehicles which can then be used to invest in countries with which the UK has concluded a BIT. However, the BIT must have been brought into force - and the actual terms of the relevant BIT should always be reviewed to ascertain the level of protection offered. Some of the countries with which the UK has BITs are very small, but the map allows you to zoom in on particular geographic areas. You can also look up a particular country by using the search box at the top left of the map.
PLEASE NOTE: This information provides a high-level overview of the UK's Bilateral Investment Treaties. This is neither to be relied on as legal advice, nor is it intended to be a comprehensive overview or description of the provisions of those agreements. If you need more information, please get in touch. The information on BIT status was obtained from the UNCTAD International Investment Agreements Navigator and UK Treaties Online.
Since we first published this interactive map in 2021, BITs between the UK and the following countries have been terminated: Indonesia, Latvia, Croatia, Chile, Romania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta, Lithuania, Slovenia. With the exception of Indonesia, these are all EU Member States. The termination of these countries' BITs with the UK is most likely a result of the fact that trade relations between the EU and third countries (such as the UK) are an exclusive competence of the European Commission (many of these BITs predated the relevant countries' membership of the EU). More generally, BITs have become somewhat controversial because of the way that they enable private investors to enforce their rights against host countries through arbitration. This appears to account for Indonesia's decision to terminate its BITs with other countries, including the UK.
If a country has not concluded a freestanding BIT with the UK, it may be worth exploring whether similar protection for investors is available via a trade agreement (see section 1 above). These often contain provisions on investment, which may in some cases extend to the type of protection normally available via a freestanding BIT.
