24-10-14, 09:10 PM
Trade agreements have to be negotiated.
simple things like not holding goods up in customs. because they have to be checked that they comply with a nations regs on safety, agreements that no surcharges will be imposed on luxury goods and so on.
Since we have been in the EU most, if not all all of our international trading has been through EU negotiated agreements, if we leave we will have to re negotiate those agreement on a country by country basis.
So we trade with China,
China negotiated a deal to trade with the whole of the EU not a few rocks off it's coast.
Their terms for trade may not be so favourable to us as a small group of rocks, has they were for the whole of Europe
read this on the TTIP agreement being negotiated between the US and the EU at the moment.
You'll get the idea
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comm...79688.html
simple things like not holding goods up in customs. because they have to be checked that they comply with a nations regs on safety, agreements that no surcharges will be imposed on luxury goods and so on.
Since we have been in the EU most, if not all all of our international trading has been through EU negotiated agreements, if we leave we will have to re negotiate those agreement on a country by country basis.
So we trade with China,
China negotiated a deal to trade with the whole of the EU not a few rocks off it's coast.
Their terms for trade may not be so favourable to us as a small group of rocks, has they were for the whole of Europe
read this on the TTIP agreement being negotiated between the US and the EU at the moment.
You'll get the idea
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comm...79688.html