On 01/07/16 13:04, Tim Watts wrote:
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.

Tons of 'manufactured' food. Dairy products, bread, meat pies, Cornish
pasties and the like.

Its not just a question of the end product meeting regulations either,
its the regulations applying to how the food is grown etc. Cf glyphosate
on our crops.



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.


Exactly and many many small businesses as well, where again its less
that the product has to meet spec, than that the whole business has to
comply with a raft of legislation that verges from the irrelevant to the
downright obstructive.



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?



In terms of the above statement, no, one would not design cars for
anything other than an international market. Even something like a Morgan.

But just looking at my desk here, there are many products that are
clearly not for export like the POTS telephone. My spectacles and cases.

Various 'supermarket' products also, like Mr Sheen, Pledge, washing up
liquid, washing powder. These do not come with instructions in 27
languages nor is there any reason that they should.

Likewise all the medicines I am supposed to take. All of which come in
ridiculous bubble packaging with enormous leaflets neither of which I need.

Regulatory compliance is an industry all by itself.

My sister was for years employed by the Eurofighter consortium to
translate contracts into German French, Italian and English. What a
waste of time.

It will take years to remove all the more pointless legislation off the
statute books.

MORPEL

Ministry of repealing pointless EU legislation.

Theres a growth opportunity...



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