On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:08:19 -0000, "tim..."
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"Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp" wrote in
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:34:53 -0000, "tim..."
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"Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp" wrote in
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Once again the idiots advertise their complete ignorance of how the
single market works.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a3762021.html

When Britain becomes a pathway for every bit of substandard crud the
US wants to throw at us, what right has the rest of the EU to refuse
it??


the same right that they have if the USA (or China) import it directly to
them

that it doesn't comply with local product standards requirements

tim


Which is why customs will be needed,

but we don't have that system at the moment with imports from ROW

ROW?

We do have customs, I assume that technically we have some level of
customs intervention even with traffic from the EU, otherwise there
would be no blue channel at airports.


Customs does seem to have a low involvement now, at one time half the
type of stuff I order from Ebay would be opened and I think it was
over £12-00 in value before money had to be sent, but they never
failed to bill One.

I notice that the stuff that comes directly from China is labelled up
"samples" or suchlike, makes a change from "used clothing left after
holiday".

Even posting houseplants to Ireland was a customs holdup, I seem to
recollect it wasn't straight duty though, it was an "import licence".

We have a system of checking product compliance at point of sale (usually
initiated by extra-governmental bodies such as consumer advice
organizations)

Because the theory that, just because a product has come from inside the EU
it must automatically comply (because all EU companies are good boys who
will followed the rules) is incorrect.

The two biggest scandals of broken standards in that past 10 years, the beef
that was really horse and Dieselgate were both perpetrated by companies from
INSIDE the EU, so that method of checking at point of sale cannot be
dismantled and replaced with checks at point of entry..

if a product line is not in
keeping with internal standards, trading cannot continue unimpeded.

Of course it can.

It is. Try buying sodium chlorate or a 2.5kW domestic vacuum.

I do not know the full mechanism, currently, but I am aware that
customs regulations were the reasons for holdups from Europe before
the EU.

I recollect VHS VCR's coming through France had to be opened,
inspected and recorded before being shipped on to us.

Of course the fact that the 2000 system was in the early production
stages had nothing to do with it :-)



As Fox, Davis and co think selling the EU carcinogenic crud that we
have imported from the US and similar adventures is a minor
technicality not worthy of any action, it just shows the level of
stupidity and ignorance they posess.

No one says that it isn't worthy of action

that are saying that the method that is posited to solve the problem DOESN'T
WORK. And this isn't idle speculation. It has been PROVEN not to work.

tim


AB