Reuters, SINGAPOREBritain takes US concerns about its use of Huawei Technologies Co (華為) equipment seriously, but is confident a trade deal with the US will be among its first after leaving the EU, British Secretary of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dominic Raab said yesterday. “We listened and take the concerns of our American friends very seriously,” Raab said in response to a question about the issue. “We are reasonably confident that we can do a free trade agreement [with the US] in that first wave of post-Brexit trade deals,” Raab said during a visit to Singapore. Britain is in talks with the US, Australia, Canada and others on future technological innovations that could challenge Huawei’s dominance in the field, Raab said. “For 5G, the sooner we can build up our pool of high-trust vendors, the less reliant we will be on high-risk vendors,” he added.
