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1andrew1 01-03-2021 21:59

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Another classic from the Br'Express:

Quote:

Italy Brexit DISASTER: Historic collapse of Made in Italy exports to UK 'It's a tragedy!'
Then you read the article.

Italian exports to the UK have fallen by 38.3% but UK exports to Italy have fallen by 70.3%!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...-de-castro-mep

Pierre 01-03-2021 22:12

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36072551)
Another classic from the Br'Express:



Then you read the article.

Italian exports to the UK have fallen by 38.3% but UK exports to Italy have fallen by 70.3%!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...-de-castro-mep

https://www.ft.com/content/98404792-...f-905afaa91eb8

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/09...uropean-union/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/ital...-collapse.html

Italy is the EU’s current economic basket case..........will be interesting to see how willing France and Germany are to bailing it out, bottom line is they have no choice.

1andrew1 01-03-2021 22:33

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36072553)
https://www.ft.com/content/98404792-...f-905afaa91eb8

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/09...uropean-union/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/ital...-collapse.html

Italy is the EU’s current economic basket case..........will be interesting to see how willing France and Germany are to bailing it out, bottom line is they have no choice.

No comment on UK exports to Italy falling by more than double the reduction in Italian exports to the UK though?

(I'm aware that Italy changes its Prime Ministers more often than we change our sheets. :))

Pierre 01-03-2021 22:44

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36072560)
No comment on UK exports to Italy falling by more than double the reduction in Italian exports to the UK though?

Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.

1andrew1 01-03-2021 23:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36072563)
Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.

70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.

TheDaddy 01-03-2021 23:31

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36072295)
The reason it was banned in the EU WASN'T because it wasn't safe, but because it WAS TOO safe. How is washing with JUST air and water, safer than washing with air AND water AND chlorinated wash?:confused: If a method is found that is even more effective than a chlorinated wash(M&S did trials using liquid air), then automatically the EU would ban it.

If the chicken plants in Poland had been allowed to use a chlorinated wash, then the food poisoning there might not have existed or been a lot less.
Link




The real reason for the EU ban.

I don't recall mentioning the EUs ban I remember saying I'd watched a programme on American food standards and was disgusted by what I saw and that if we let them into our market our standards would suffer or we couldn't compete

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 36072467)


This is a red herring.


I buy all the food in my house, and I won't buy US chicken even it was 99% cheaper than British.


Consumers rule when it comes to buying, look at the sale of EU items which IIRC has plummeted by 50%+.

How is it a red herring if the food isn't labled which iirc is part of America's terms, that the stuff isn't labled

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36072563)
Because given the current state of the Italian economy, and it’s borrowing, that story is an irrelevance and distraction of little importance.

It always seems to be an irrelevance, a distraction or of little importance though...

Sephiroth 01-03-2021 23:32

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
I don't see the importance of a trade deal with the USA. They need it more than we do but won't behave appropriately, it seems.

papa smurf 02-03-2021 07:40

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36072569)
70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.

Are you the trumpet player in the EU brass band?

1andrew1 02-03-2021 08:04

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36072610)
Are you the trumpet player in the EU brass band?

We don't need VAR to see you're playing the man and not the ball. Try again!

Maggy 02-03-2021 09:34

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Let's just keep to topic

Hugh 02-03-2021 12:47

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36072574)
I don't see the importance of a trade deal with the USA. They need it more than we do but won't behave appropriately, it seems.

The US is our biggest individual country for exports - wouldn't a trade deal help?

Sephiroth 02-03-2021 13:02

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36072640)
The US is our biggest individual country for exports - wouldn't a trade deal help?

Depends on the deal. I'm sure they'll flex muscles in a direction of which the public disapproves.

If we're trading with them now, what's the problem? What do we need from them?

1andrew1 02-03-2021 13:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36072644)
Depends on the deal. I'm sure they'll flex muscles in a direction of which the public disapproves.

If we're trading with them now, what's the problem? What do we need from them?

The US is quite a low-tariff country so a free trade deal that some promoted was never going to deliver too much extra value. The US is just discretely protectionist in other areas like airline ownership where it cites national security to keep overseas companies out.

OLD BOY 02-03-2021 17:28

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36072569)
70.3% > 38.3% so the headline without Brexit-coloured glasses would be around the larger figure.

Well, I suppose one explanation is that it cannot afford the imports.

Hugh 03-03-2021 16:15

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56262527

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The UK government is to unilaterally extend grace periods for Irish Sea border checks.

Northern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods so products arriving from GB undergo EU import procedures.

The grace periods mean procedures and checks are not yet fully applied.

The first of these periods is set to expire at the end of March, but the UK says they will now be extended until October.

The EU has not yet commented on the move.


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