No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

Another brilliant article from Catherine McBride.

https://briefingsforbritain.co.uk/uk...pse-overnight/

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

She wrires what l have been thinking for the last 4yrs Bread !
The only people to talk reuters talk are people with vested interests
in the EU, unfortunately for them, they are in the minority in uk as
most of uk business is done elswhere in the world !
But l believe she is probably crying in the wind as large numbers of
remainers will not read or listen to reason and will close their ears??
I have remainer relatives and they just switch off if any logic is
ever brought into the argument or they get upset !
However t was a very good article, thanks for posting it !!

Donkeyman! 👍👍😁😁👍👍

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

Yep...

Nobody cared about tariffs until 2016.

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

The United States has free trade agreements in force with*20 countries. These are:

Australia
Bahrain
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
ElSalvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Israel
Jordan
Korea
Mexico
Morocco
Nicaragua
Oman
Panama
Peru
Singapore
USMCA

*The list of countries china has a fta with is to long to show. You can look them up here: http://fta.mofcom.gov.cn/english/fta_qianshu.shtml

Strangely the UK is not on either list.....

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

In case you didn't notice, the UK was part of the EU until January this year and guess what ? The EU hasn't got an FTA with China either.

The EU has 11 trade agreements actually in force. Here they are complete with the type of arrangement.

Switzerland - Agreement
Faroe Islands - Agreement
Turkey - Customs union
Iceland - Economic Area Agreement
Norway - Economic Area Agreement
Liechtenstein - Economic Area Agreement
South Korea - Free Trade Agreement
Singapore - Free Trade Agreement
Vietnam - Free Trade Agreement
Mexico - Global Agreement
Japan - Global agreement

Of the FTA's the EU has outside the single market none of them are ratified or fully implemented / complete - as I've said on many occasions. The other trade "agreements" are more of pledges between countries where the EU and the other country make statements to the effect they will trade fairly and in cooperation with each other etc... hardly a trade deal, in fact pretty worthless really.

Here you are - look at the list, the type of trade deal and those that are "provisionally applied" - meaning, it's not complete, then see if you actually recognise some of these places.

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/co...s/index_en.htm


Meanwhile, here are the UK trade agreements so far ... around 25 signed up with about 3 MRA in place

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade...n-eu-countries

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

Every one of those fta's is a deal between two different nations and
does not preclude either nation from t trading with any third nation!
Solly? unlike the AEU so called free trade deal as regards UK !!
In other words its a free trade deal in name only !!

Donkeyman! 😟👎😟👎

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

They aren't even FTA's

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

Covering 8% of the trade you presently have as EU member. Good job!

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

We left.

Your 2nd biggest trading partner ....

Says it all really

Re: No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK agreement

Didn't you understand the article by mcbride you put up here? Or didn't you even read it, like IDS didn't read the WA?
Trade will go on she says, it will just be more expensive for you.