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No point in doing this BEFORE negotiating.
It doesnt offer anything not already on the table with a potential FTA. That's what any free trade deal is. Zero tariffs for substantially all imports.
Plus you've missed the bus...
wto.org/english/news_e…
Interestingly if you look at the ERGA OMNES TRQ details (src.bna.com/AA0r) the UK gets a 0% share!
Not that this was relevant anyway as pretty much all orange came in under country-specific FTA quotas.
But with no FTAs ??
src.bna.com/AA1