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Originally Posted by martyh
thanks for the above guys ,those two graphs would suggest that trade outside the EU is just as profitable for the UK as trade within it .I suppose the question would be how much trade would we lose from EU countries should we leave and could we make up the difference with new trade deals
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It doesn't work like that, by being in a bloc when a country like the US goes all protectionist and hikes up tarriffs to favour it's own people the EU would do likewise on a US export, it doesn't really have the same impact our little island doing it by itself.