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Old 09-04-2019, 15:52   #1422
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
The possible US imposed tariffs will be additional to any existing ones, so with Brexit we might avoid those additional tariffs. The issue raised was whether this story is Brexit related.

It just highlights how tethered to the EU we would be with a customs union.
Under WTO preferred country rules can the USA apply such a tariff only to the EU? Surely if we traded on WTO terms with the USA they’d still apply to us, we’d just be outside the EU.
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