On 09/09/2019 14:53, dennis@home wrote:
On 09/09/2019 12:54, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Norman Wells
wrote:

On 09/09/2019 11:53, michael adams wrote:

The Govt are falling over themselves to publish the "good news" -
hurrah
we're going to abolish tarriffs on imports so everything is going to be
cheaper

No, what it's said is that there won't be tariffs applied to 83% of
all the goods we import.

But are strangely silent on the tarriffs the RoW may impose on our
exports
which may render them uncompeteive.Â* Don't you worry your pretty little
heads about those - or look them up if you can find out where to look.

Exporters have to at the moment for exports to anywhere outside the
EU. One assumes they're big enough and ugly enough to do it, and
don't need their hands holding all the time.Â* They're supposed to be
businessmen for goodness sake.Â* It goes with the territory.

Adams is a dimwit, eh? Only a thickie like him would be unable to
comprehend that such tariffs are already being imposed on goods sold to
RoW. What's so hard about that, eh? Answer, it isn't. So one must
assume he has another agenda. Gosh, I wonder what that could be.


Shame the EU has trade deals with 50 counties and is negotiating with 72
more that the UK won't be a part of. So we aren't currently putting
tariffs on the RoW, just some of it.

The EU had 40 deals, covering 70 countries in August. At that stage we
had agreed roll over deals to continue the same agreements with 38
countries (it was only 4 or five deals a few months ago). More may have
been done since then. Many won't spend the time and money agreeing a
roll-over until we have left, as it involves replacing references to EU
laws and institutions and they cannot be certain that we will actually
leave or when.

There will be disruption and cost, but mostly over a short period while
there is a flurry of roll-overs and the agreement of deals with the RoW
(including the EU) can commence.

SteveW