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On 22/04/17 15:27, Tim Streater wrote:
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I'm still waiting for someone to explain why there would be

The single market is a a tarriff-free zone

And tariffs on imports, even if we went WTO, would be under our
control. You seem to have bought into the lie that being WTO would
*automatically* mean tariffs.

Can you really see this country allowing in all imports with no
tariffs at
all?

More ****-stirring and making things up, I see. Did I say anything
about "all imports"? No.

From countries which will have imposed a tariff on our exports?

So if they impose tariffs, our tariffs would automatically spring into
life? You're just spouting more Remoaner bull****.


The problem with that line is there's more than one of "them"

We cannot remove tariffs from imports from the EU without also removing
tariffs from imports (of the same thing) from the USA or China (you can
replace remove with impose in that sentence to get the contra view)

How do we balance this trick if the EU wants to impose tariffs on us,
but the US doesn't? (for the purpose of the discussion, just pretend
that might happen)

Why can the EU selectively impose a tariff on stuff
from Britain,

It won't be (doing it selectively)

In the absence of a Trade Deal it will simply apply the already in
existence EU External Tariff to UK imports, as it does to every other
non-EU country

And given we are a significant net contributor to the EU we would actually
be better off paying the tariffs instead of the membership fee.

Exporters don't pay tariffs, it's the importers that do.