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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
And yet the whole world indulges in protectionism, I'd go as far as saying we are already the least protectionist country in the world, going even further by removing the means to feed ourselves doesn't seem shortsighted to me, it seems reckless
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As an EU member, we were placed an equal 51st in the world in terms of tariffs using the weighted mean which takes into account what we actually import. The weighted mean was 1.79%
The proposed UK tariff schedule in front of the WTO is about 1.6% weighted mean which would put us 18th on this measure of protectionism.
There are plenty of less protectionist countries than the UK including some quite big players such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mexico and Chile
EDIT - source material -
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/ind...AR.ZS/rankings