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Originally Posted by Damien
I am not saying the US will choose or the other but that our position in negotiations will be weaker than it would be as a collective with Europe. It has taken a while but given the difficulty in securing such agreements it's not a massive surprise, the US hardly has agreements in place with loads of other countries. Still it's took ages and will probably takes ages to agree still.
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Again, I don't agree. Reciprocal trade deals are not simply a case of "I won't put tariffs on yours if you don't put tariffs on mine". There are a whole pile of additional considerations arising from whatever regulations exist in the territory you wish to sell into. In the case of the EU the regulation is vast and often arcane. The UK, when left to itself, tends towards less regulation than the EU. This offers us a potential advantage.