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**Mick** · 26-01-2018, 17:39

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I fear the fact-free Leaver media have misinformed you and many others about the Customs Union in order for you to vote Leave. Iceland is a member of the Customs Union but has negotiated a trade deal with China.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...ith-China.html

Anyway, we may not really leave as Sky News explains:

https://news.sky.com/story/long-read...union-11222746

You are the one who is misinformed. Iceland is not in the EU Customs Union, they are in a EEA, European Economic Area agreement. Thus, able to strike their own trade deals, they still have to abide by certain rules but I repeat, they are not in the EU Customs Union.