On Monday, 20 June 2016 21:26:50 UTC+1, tim... wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Friday, 17 June 2016 17:17:49 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


If there really were no trade benefits from being in the EU, every single
UK manufacturer would have said so. After all, why put up with EU regs
etc
if nothing in it for them at the end of the day?

A good question why would a company want to restrict the sale of products
that they don't make by putting in tarriffs ?

to generate income for the government

Sales taxes for cars in Denmark are very high because they have no incumbent
industry to "protect".

I thought Denmark was in the EU and had free trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmar...European_Union

"The main economic reason that Denmark joined the EEC was because it wanted to safeguard its agricultural exports to the United Kingdom."

Bacon




tim