European Union members have endorsed the post-Brexit trade deal to go into effect on January 1.
Spokesman of the 27 EU member states disclosed this on Monday.
Ambassadors from EU capitals met in Brussels to nod through the accord, using a procedure which will take effect at 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Tuesday.
The endorsement will provisionally allow tariff-free trade with Britain to continue after it leaves the EU single market at the New Year.
Britain and the European Union had on Saturday published the full text of the post-Brexit trade agreement aimed at governing their relationship when the UK definitively leaves the bloc’s single market in just five days’ time.
The document, which is more than 1,200 pages long, lays out detail on trade, law enforcement and dispute settlement among other arrangements between Britain and the EU after the UK leaves the single market and customs union on 31 December.
