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On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:50:21 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Monday, 20 June 2016 21:26:50 UTC+1, tim... wrote:
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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


Not it's not.

and had free trade.


Yes it does.

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."


The EEC isnt the EU, stupid.


we joined the EEC too, not the EU stupid

Bacon


Pork.


No Danish bacon is the importent import we hear about.