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On Friday, 1 July 2016 13:04:47 UTC+1, 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.


Bollix
The UK standard gauge is the most widely used world wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gauge


There is a lot more involved than just the railway track gauge.