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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
We'd have to slap tariffs on products throughout the world or have tariffs on none unless we had free trade agreements.
We can't trade tariff free with everyone as it'd destroy much of what's left of our manufacturing base.
We can't have free trade agreements until our schedule of tariffs and quotas is sorted with the WTO.
We need agreement from the 163+ members of the WTO on our schedule before it's ratified.
I appreciate if you listen to the three Brexiteers and their fan club none of this is an issue, there's no legal ambiguity at all and it'll be smooth as silk. I'm just going by what the guy in charge of accession to the WTO said, under the possibly mistaken impression he knows more these matters than Boris Johnson or David Davis.
It would be awesome if it were that simple, and businesses far less stressed.
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I don't pretend to be an expert or even marginally knowledgable but how square this
https://www.ft.com/content/5741129a-...f-79eb4891c97d
With this
http://www.lawyersforbritain.org/int-trade.shtml