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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
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.
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If only there was a worldwide "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", now covered by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Let's suppose it did happen. It's unlikely that the UK on it's own would have a big enough negative impact in the first place for anybody to feel the need to take that sort of action. It would be more likely that the EU would pose a problem to the US, simply because of their pig-headedness and hatred of the US. In that instance the UK wouldn't be on the receiving end of any US actions. So will people stop talking total and utter nonsense about possible outcomes that are never going to happen.
We never had(nor will have) any input to any proposals, so not submitting to Berlin's demands won't have a negative impact on any potential influence. Simply agreeing to what Berlin says, is not having influence.