No it means we can begin a trade deal....
With TRUMP!!
Forget staying close to EU after Brexit, chancellor tells business
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With TRUMP!!
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Way I see it some in here are displaying a selfish attitude to any US trade deal
Deal with the US means lower custom charges being levied on importing car parts
So we have to take chlorinated chicken
Who cares I say
Small price to pay
Deal with the US means lower custom charges being levied on importing car parts
So we have to take chlorinated chicken
Who cares I say
Small price to pay
Who TF would want automotive dross from the USA? Considering the amount of years they have had developing their industry, their motors are ludicrously bad. A joke, really.
The US will insist on a level playing field.
Brexiteers bang on about not taking EU rules......but forget we will be forced to take on someone elses rules instead
Brexit = NOT take back control
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No it doesn't, it proves you lied.
No it doesnt, you are clutching at straws.
Ive said many times I voted to leave, my posts back in 2017 shortly after I joined, confirm that.
The 'lie' was a couple of pages back where you denied having made the claim, when you were 'rumbled' you came back with some nonsense about how clever you were.
Chlorinated chicken is a small thing. US drug prices are a big thing.Way I see it some in here are displaying a selfish attitude to any US trade deal
Deal with the US means lower custom charges being levied on importing car parts
So we have to take chlorinated chicken
Who cares I say
Small price to pay
Thankfully i don't have cancer so don't need to worry about the drug prices being cranked up and them being dropped from the NHS.
These trade deals are all about the details. The US negotiators are well funded and experienced. We don't really have a negotiation team. The US doesn't need a trade deal with us much, we need one.
Are they really that bad? I drove a pontiac firebird in florida 28 years ago and have yet to see anything match it 28 years on.
They make fantastic tractors. Probably the best tractor in the world and a contractors favourite ....
Caterpillar make great earth moving machines.
Have you tried parking either at Tesco?
Q. Have you ever wondered why European (read German) and Japanese cars are so popular in the States yet their sales in reverse look dire by comparison?
A. Because American cars are shoite.
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USA is Germanys biggest car export market.
And 800,000 German cars were made in the USA last year.....so there is also a huge parts exports G to USA
At the moment we will align with the EU standards on one product for the forseeable future, we don't align on another product that we mainly sell in the UK and do export a bit but not to the EU and we are in the process of aligning with both EU and US standards on a third product that we manufacture on a subcontract basis.
With my EU export product we are setting up a company in Holland that will act as our distributor, which was something we had planned anyway. As we have a sales office there anyway, its not much more admin. We will then have notified body approval in the Eu and a legal entity in the EU which covers both bases. We all buy products that are manufactured all over the world already and don't bat an eyelid when buying a car made in Japan, a TV made in South Korea or clothes made in Bangladesh. I don't see that the 'friction' to trade will be significant. If the product is good, well priced and properly supported, people will buy it.
The reality is that we had to have notified body accreditation anyway for that poduct. The fact that our notified body is now in Holland doesn't make too much difference. We may also have to have notified body approval in the UK in time ot cover our UK sales, but that remains to be seen.
As we have a fully equipped sheet metal factory we also sell some of that capacity to other companies by making metal parts for them on a subcontract basis. Our biggest subcontract customer has started to export their product to the USA in anticipation of reduced tariffs. We are already seeing an increase in business from them which will only grow if tarriffs are reduced which will help reduce their selling price in the US.
We already have our own standards organisation and what removing the need to align with the EU does is allow is to develop our own standards. I expect that some products will remain aligned and others will diverge. Not that standards are the the be all and end all in the product world anyway. Our biggest output product takes guidance from appropriate standards to assist with complying with the essential health and safety requirements of the machinery directive, but does not comply in entirety with any standard. We comply with the useful bits in the main standard, comply with bits of other appropriate standards and demonstrate compliance with the machinery directive in other ways on various aspects of our machines.
Now i come to think of it, our export product doesn't comply in full with its relevant standard either. The areas where it diverges are assessed by our notified body and underwritten as complying with the machinery directive, hence the CE mark.
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divergence in the areas that matter.
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