French and Australian officials said Monday that France’s anger over a canceled submarine contract will not derail negotiations on an Australia-European Union free trade deal, AP reports.

The United Kingdom plans to launch negotiations to join the Asia-Pacific free trade pact, BBC reported. Those intentions are targeted to secure to businesses from Britain to "some of the biggest economies of the present and future", the government said. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) consists of 11 countries and includes Australia, Canada and Japan. Membership in the pact would result in reduction of tariffs on exports such as cars and whisky.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian PM Scott Morrison announced they had reached agreement over a large trade deal between the two countries, BBC reported. UK has been pushing ahead with efforts to substitute EU as trade partner after the Brexit process was completed. This is the first trade deal to be negotiated from scratch since the UK left the EU. The agreement is seen as key step towards the Britain joining a wider Asia Pacific free-trade agreement.

UK announced it had achieved a post-Brexit agreement with three European countries, Reuters reported. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein which are part of the European Economic Area confirmed that the trade accords with Britain were sealed. The deals end a post-Brexit period which marked the separation of UK from EU.

After many delays, Israel and South Korea announced they would sign a free trade pact next week, Reuters reported. On Sunday, Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi and Minister of Economy and Industry Amir Peretz arrived for a three day visit to South Korea during which they will attend the formal signing of the deal in Seoul together with ministers from the Korean government.

China and New Zealand signed a deal on Tuesday upgrading a free trade pact to give exports from the Pacific nation greater access to the world’s second-largest economy.

The post-Brexit trade bill has received the royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said in the early hours of Thursday, meaning it is now officially law in Britain, dpa reported.

The post-Brexit trade deal reached by the United Kingdom and the European Union goes beyond the EU’s so-called “Canada-style” trade accord, Reuters reported, citing BBC that obtained on Friday what it said was a full copy of the accord.

UK has called the European Union to retreat from current positions in order to finalize the Brexit related trade deal, Reuters reported. The two parties has remained on their positions related to few argumentative issues with deadline for the talks critically approaching, UK health minister Matt Hancock repeated Britain’s calls for the European Union to shift its position on Sunday and withdraw its “unreasonable demands” for the two sides to be able to seal a post-Brexit trade deal.

Britain and the EU have moved closer to sealing a new trade deal but it was still unclear if they would succeed, the EU Commission said on Wednesday. “I cannot tell you whether there will be a deal or not. But I can tell you that there is a path to an agreement now. The path may be very narrow but it is there,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament.