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Old 08-09-2018, 19:51   #1159
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Re: Brexit Discussion (Follow First Post Rules!)
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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Why not?
It's a WTO requirement unless we give zero tariffs to every country in the world which is not on the agenda.
Per Professor O’Donoghue of Durham Law School
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“If the UK chooses not impose any tariffs on goods coming across the [Irish] border… that would mean that the UK is giving the EU (because Ireland is the EU in this context) complete open access. So its most favoured nation tariff is zero. That means it would have to give a zero tariff access to every single country in the WTO.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=3058337
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