Thread: UK & EU Agree Post-Brexit Trade Deal
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Old 29-03-2020, 19:35   #2734
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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It’s not irrelevant at all.

Trade deals are frequently characterised by mutual recognition of standards, not compliance. A mutual recognition deal that starts from a point of near perfect alignment ought to be far easier to work out than one that begins from a place of great divergence.

There are EU rules written right through our statute book. Even a deliberate effort to diverge from them would take years to produce significant widespread differences.
Eloquently put, Chris.
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