On 01/07/16 12:25, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
Not much point in being in a free trade area if you don't want to
export.

You've made a flexible statement into a very binary one.

Why would you not want to pick and choose - and direct your best exports
to the EU, whilst not being burdened with regulations concerning exports
that are a minority.

I'm trying to think of anything that would be made for the UK only, with
no eye on possibly exporting it.

Something made by the UK for the internal market? Trains for example,
that don't fit anyone else's gauge.

Something a bit specialist and one off.

The product of a very small company who doesn't need the hassle of EU
regulations and only needs a home market - this is likely to include
most small farms.

Can you?

Especially with things like cars. A very large emerging market might well
make a product that couldn't be exported. Like a tuk-tuk, etc. But not the
UK.

Rather the same as all consumer goods. We already make those to EU regs -
like it or not. So why do a re-design for the UK only to a lower standard?