Rabat – Chris Bryant, the UK’s Minister of State for Trade Policy, has commended the rapid growth of economic ties between Morocco and his country, saying bilateral trade reached £4.6 billion in the 12 months to June 2025.
Bryant made his remarks in a written response to a question regarding the UK-Morocco Association Agreement Rabat and London signed in 2019 to preserve bilateral partnerships after Brexit.
Trade between the two kingdoms has significantly gone up since the agreement came into force in 2021, Bryant said, noting that “it reached £4.6 billion in the 12 months to June 2025, an increase of 18.8% or £730 million in current prices, from the previous 12 months.”
He noted that the agreement covers all sectors, including bilateral political, economic, and social cooperation, facilitating trade between the two countries.
Bryant also recalled the Association Council meeting last year, which reaffirmed commitment to further boost trade between the two countries, among several other sectoral cooperation, covering also education, renewable energy, security, and others.
The UK and Morocco share good diplomatic ties marked by the exchange of visits between the countries’ officials, as well as high-level meetings to explore venues to boost relations at all levels.
On the diplomatic front, the UK recently took a major step toward further cementing its relationship with Morocco by endorsing the country’s Autonomy Plan as the most serious and credible political framework to end the dispute over Western Sahara.
The shift came in June last year during then Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visit to Rabat, where he officially announced that the Moroccan initiative was the “most credible, viable, and pragmatic basis for resolving the dispute.”
The UK was also among the 11 countries that voted in favor of Resolution 2797 last October. This resolution officially declared the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the genuine political framework to end the dispute over Western Sahara, definitively settling the legal dispute over the region in favor of Morocco.
