"pamela" wrote in message
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On 09:23 10 Feb 2018, tim... wrote:




you are right that when every country has a deal with every other
country there is no advantage

but the reality is that the number of deals that have been struck
is tiny

there is still space to take advantage of being the early mover

Huh? What early mover advantage would that be?

making trade deals with the emerging Asian and S American countries


that is why we have to leave the EU to DO IT NOW, instead of
missing the boat because getting the multilateral deal that the EU
(necessarily) needs takes forever.

What boat are we going to miss?

the one above


tim


Strange that rely on the WTO but ignore the opinion of Pascal Lamy
who declares that he's completely perplexed at how the UK thinks
it's going to make a trade success from using baseline WTO rules.

the plan is not to trade at baseline WTO terms

tim