EU referendum -UK users

[MikeRox]

Ka-pi96 said:

MikeRox said:

UK as a member of the EU, is actually NOT allowed to make any trade deals with countries like the US and China. Trade deals have to be negotiated by the EU itself for all EU members.

The EU is currently trying to negotiate a US trade agreement though, but pretty much everyone seems to be against it that isn't involved in the negotiations directly.

ummm.... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chinese-state-visit-up-to-40-billion-deals-agreed

While they are deals to do trade, they are not the same type of trade deals that the EU could negotiate. (Or the trade deals the UK could negotiate if they were not in the EU.)

 

For example, the EU has its own import duties for any goods entering from outside the EU zone. Normally this would need something the individual country would be able to negotiate on, but inside the EU, this trumps anything the country proposes.