"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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James Harris wrote:
I don't quite get it. One moment, Brexiteers are complaining the EU
took no action to prevent China selling steel so as to undercut the UK
makers.

That's not quite my complaint. Mine is that EU membership prevents the
government from taking action to protect key industries. Whether they
should or not is debatable. But they simply don't have that option while
in the EU. They can only ask the EU to do it.

Rather obviously if part of a club. You can't reasonably expect
to have one law for you, and different for the rest of the club.

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

But with oranges, it's ok. But of course we don't grow oranges.

Why would we want to be behind a tariff wall for things we don't
produce? It makes no sense. All it does is increase the costs of imports
without helping any of our people or businesses.

Because we were part of a club.

Not when out of the EU.

Where things are done for all - not just some.

Another bare faced lie with all of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...ade_agreements

(Once free again, we might keep some tariffs to use
for bargaining - but that's getting a bit off topic.)

All this talk of tariffs is a bit of a red herring. As
it's services we make far more out of - not goods.

And will continue to do when out of the EU because
the EU can't even have tariff barriers against services.