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"tim..." writes:

"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 21/07/2016 14:32, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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harry wrote:
http://www.theunituk.org.uk/2016/07/...els-over-ceta/

And it's going to be ever so easy for the UK to make deals with all the
other countries in the world, we've been told, as we don't need the EU.


Recently the Canadian official in charge of the negotiation said that the
UK would be part of CETA because it would still be in the EU when it was
ratified within the next 1/2 years and hinted when exiting the EU the
trade deal would may still be valid between Canada and the UK.

There would be nothing to stop us unilaterally withdrawing from it, if that
were to be the case.

We would automatically withdraw when we leave the EU, *but* regardless of that,
the UK government remains liable to pay compensation for 20 years afterwards
if it does anything which undermines the value of any trade which took place
whilst CETA was in effect.

I am much more confident that the EU countries will torpedo CETA and TTIP,
than I am that our own government would torpedo such a 1-sided trade deal -
I suspect the UK will run after any deal going, however bad it is for us.

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