"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
tim... wrote:
up about us leaving the EU. Basically non of the usual tariffs and
duties etc will apply. Such is their brave new world.

the problem is that there are two different points here

Most leavers who say that "tariffs are optional" are usually responding
to the otf claimed nonsense in the press, that leaving the EU will
impose tariffs that WILL put up prices for UK consumers, when that is a
complete falsehood.

All you can do is think about the most likely scenario.
If anyone thinks the non EU UK will allow in all imports
regardless tariff free, they are totally mad.

How odd that these do get that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...ade_agreements

That would decimate our agricultural industry in short order.

How odd that it didn’t when Britain was in the EU
and that was true of the stuff that came from the EU.

And pretty well all others too.

How odd that it didn’t when Britain was in the EU
and that was true of the stuff that came from the EU.

Because the likelihood is other countries will put
tariffs on our goods regardless of what we do.

Britain doesn’t export all that much that
can have tariffs applied now that matters.

In the absence of any trade agreement, other than WTO.

They cant do that selectively against Britain in that situation.

The EU can't either.

That the effect of the EU imposing tariffs on our exports to them may
make trade more difficult is not within the scope of that question and
you cannot extrapolate the answer to the first as the answer to the
second.

((I'll grant you that there are a set of people who don't know the
difference, but I can't say that I've noticed any here)