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The Fury said:
MikeRox said:

See my response post. We can't make trade deals with any country. It has to be done by the whole EU for the whole EU.

We can TRADE with countries the EU doesn't have deals with, but if we wanted to amend terms in a way which we and that country think would be beneficial, we can't.

So we can make trade deals with countries EU doesn't have trade deals with yet can't make trade deals the EU has deals with. But if we already have a deal with a country in the EU setup why would we then setup a separate deal outside the EU setup with the same country? Undercutting the EUs deal in some way to gain some kind of advantage?

I'll look into this, but I'm pretty certain we can't make these trade deals, because import tariffs apply EU wide. How could the UK decide to lower car import tariffs for Japan or the US? 

 

It would interfere with the EU borders. I.e import with less duty to UK. Then that would bypass the tariff in the rest of the EU. It would be completely unworkable to allow a member state to negotiate it's own deals.

 

Doing trade is different to having trade deals, which are about import tariffs etc.



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