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Originally Posted by Pierre
It's not free now, it's never been free. It cost us that magical figure that escapes me £360billion or so minus the rebate.
In fact some things will be much cheaper from around the world as we can decide what tariffs to but on other goods and not the EU tariffs.
what's going to be pillaged?
and we'll be free to buy elsewhere.
you sound like a battered wife in an abusive relationship.
We will get to decide what tariffs, to whom and how much instead of being told what to do.
ramblings
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Weapons grade? ramblings of a madman/woman
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In the spirit of Mrs May's compromise at all costs approach to negotiation can we refer to them as weapons grade ramblings
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Originally Posted by Damien
Trade agreements are not that simple though which is why they take so long to create. The bigger the parties involved the more complicated it gets. It's not just a case of 'we'll sell you Scotch, in return we'll buy Levi jeans' although that gets incredibly difficult as different industries within the respective nations jockey for protections e.t.c. It's also demanding political action from the governments involved. So maybe we want to ensure 'Scotch' is a protected term and want legal assurances from the other nation that their government will take action against anyone within their country from using that term for their own, non-Scottish, whisky makers. Maybe a nation wants copyright laws toughened, almost certainly regulations need to be changed and so on.
It's all very well saying 'I have something to sell, you have money to buy it' but we're dealing with billions of pounds worth of goods moving back and forth between different regulatory and legal environments. Especially when governments don't want their citizens buying from foreign rivals but simultaneously want to protect the right of their businesses to sell to foreign governments.
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Not to mention the supply chain which will get messed with, the obvious solution to me would be to remove us from the chain, the consequences of which will be devastating for a lot of homes I'd imagine