UK and EU Agree Draft Deal to Cut Food Export Red Tape
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The UK and the EU have a new plan about food.
This plan is a draft deal. It is not final yet.
The deal wants to stop red tape on food.
Red tape means too many rules and papers.
These rules make it hard to send food between the UK and EU.
After Brexit, the UK left the EU. New rules came for trade.
The new deal will cut some of these rules for food.
This is part of a bigger plan. People call it the Brexit reset.
The Brexit reset means the UK and EU want better ties again.
This food deal is the biggest part of the reset so far.
There will be a UK-EU summit this month.
A summit is a big meeting between leaders.
Leaders may agree on the food deal at this summit.
Many people want easier trade between the UK and EU.
This deal could help businesses that sell food.
Vocabulary15 words
- draft deal
- a plan that is not finished yet
- red tape
- too many rules that make things slow
- Brexit
- when the UK left the EU
- Brexit reset
- new plan to make UK-EU ties better
- summit
- a big meeting between leaders
- trade
- buying and selling between countries
- export
- to send goods to another country
- agreement
- when two sides say yes to a plan
- rules
- things people must do or follow
- final
- the last; not changing anymore
- ties
- the connection between two groups
- businesses
- companies that make or sell things
- leaders
- important people who run a country
- plan
- an idea about what to do
- easier
- not hard; simple
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1. Food exports 2. Red tape 3. No, it is a draft deal
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The UK and the EU have a new plan about _____.
This plan is a _____. It is not final yet.
The deal wants to stop _____ on food.
Red tape means too many rules and _____.
After _____, the UK left the EU.
The new deal will cut some of these rules for _____.
People call this bigger plan the Brexit _____.
There will be a UK-EU _____ this month.
A summit is a big meeting between _____.
This deal could help _____ that sell food.
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