Britain and Morocco made farm tariffs and product-origin rules priorities for further discussion after bilateral trade reached £4.6 billion, a meeting record published Nov. 2, 2026, shows.
The joint communiqué recounts a London meeting on Nov. 12, 2025, chaired by Sir Chris Bryant MP, then the UK minister for trade, and Ryad Mezzour, Morocco's minister of industry and trade. It also records a government-to-government partnership on infrastructure for the 2030 FIFA World Cup and an agreed framework for delivering it.
The £4.6 billion figure covers goods and services in the 12 months to the end of June 2025, according to the Department for Business and Trade. UK exports were £2 billion and imports £2.6 billion. Compared with the prior 12 months, total trade grew 18.8%, equal to £730 million, in current prices.
The communiqué says ministers agreed to explore an agricultural tariff arrangement aimed at broadening access for farm products. They also supported technical work on a UK proposal to update rules governing where goods originate, with changes to be made as needed. The discussions were intended to reduce uncertainty for traders and give companies more flexibility in arranging supply chains. The record describes talks, not a concluded tariff agreement or rules already changed.
The UK-Morocco Association Agreement took effect in 2021. Morocco's Ministry of Industry and Commerce says it provides duty-free treatment for qualifying industrial products that meet origin requirements, while some agricultural goods remain subject to quotas or schedules.
Morocco said it was willing to add a binding procurement measure to the agreement. The communiqué said a government procurement working group was due to meet for the first time in early 2026. A UK government note published Aug. 24, 2026, said a proposed procurement chapter was still being scoped and could improve UK suppliers' access to public contracts. The note estimated Morocco's public procurement market at about £33 billion over the next few years.
The communiqué also cites up to £5 billion in UK Export Finance for strategic projects in Morocco, a commitment referenced in a June 2025 joint statement. It gives no project-by-project financing allocations for World Cup infrastructure.
