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Originally Posted by nomadking
Our current regulations on products are the SAME as the rest of the EU. That will also be the same on day one of the [mythical] Brexit. Surely there are no issues until we start changing them. Even then the changes will be known well in advance of being applied, not be major changes, and will affect a limited ranges of products.
It's possible our standards would be higher. Eg many years ago there was an issue with French UHT milk. UK producers were held to higher standards, which the French didn't meet. The UK tried to block imports of the sub-standard French UHT milk, but the EU said we couldn't.
As long as any product brought into or made in the UK has CE(ie EU) certification, there shouldn't be an issue at all.
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It all depends on what deal is negotiated. If a product has been certified by British certification firm with a CE mark it becomes invalid in the event of no deal as the certification firm is in a third country and can't be overseen by EU bodies. There could be a deal to avoid this but some things are hard to avoid if you're not in a single market. Trade deals commonly require the product you're exporting to have a certain level of local content. This makes sense, otherwise a developed company could do something like add a steering wheel to a Chinese made car and claim it's local.
For EU-made products, the local content can be from anywhere in the UK including the UK. When we leave the EU, our products won't be part of that percentage. Therefore, EU manufacturers may have to substitute British-made parts for EU-made parts to access trade deals.