Trade deals progress

[Vinty]

You will find that one solution is tearing up the GFA and having a hard border in NI.

Either politicians are thick or the public is but WTO rules means that you need to define and operate the border or you are in the same customs area so no need.

We want to go WTO then the EU and UK will define a hard patrolled border - no electronic equivalence will do. It cannot be a soft border - it's inspection.

Now there is a very strong pro Irish lobby in the US who have great influence over trade policy now the House has turned blue.

They have said any material change to the GFA will be incorporated into any US/UK Trade deal.

Rep Boyle raised without prompting UK-US trade deal: “If you renege, or you go back that does not affect just this current issue, but all future issues. You lose your credibility..we’re going to be looking at US-UK trade deal, so we’ll remember how good one’s credibility is.

Once the UK leaves the EU then it won't just be Ulster that will have a border with the EU, the rest of the UK will have borders with the EU so will these borders be hard or soft.

 

[EFLImpudence]

so why is tiny N.Ireland such a big problem.

You must be joking!

 

[Bosswhite]

So far, not a single one has been signed. The Steel industry of Britain warns that 97% of its exports are currently covered by trade deals that will be lost if UK jumps off the no-deal cliff.

Of domestic sales, about half are to the car industry, whose problems, in the event of Rice-Pudd getting his way, we already know about.

but on the good news side:

"Britain intends shortly to sign trade deals with Switzerland, Chile, the Palestinian Authority and the Faroe Islands."

https://www.ft.com/content/ef08f6b4-23f3-11e9-b329-c7e6ceb5ffdf

We could trade with these Countries without leaving the EU , so what have we achieved ?

 

[transam]

Farmers union official from Southern Ireland said on the radio tonight that a no deal
Brexit could devastate the beef farming industry ? And they will require a subsidy from the EU to keep it afloat ? Also the mushroom growing industry could go belly up
the dairy and sheep farming should be able to get by ?

Ireland it would seem is going to be hit the hardest by this Brexit caper of all the remaining EU states . Bit rough on em imho after all they had no say in the UK decision but are about to bare the brunt or a significant amount of it

 

[noseall]

A technology solution will be found

They already exist boyo. None are suitable for the UK/Ireland border.

Dumb quitter plan-less bastads.

Next...

 

[Vinty]

Laim Fox made an interesting speech about the UK and the commonwealth creating the world's largest free-trade zone.
The commonwealth has 53 countries and 2.2billion people all of which drawfs the EU.
A lot of these countries are developing fast and have vast potential for growth.
With Britains unique relationship with the commonwealth we could in time turn away from Europe in terms of relying on it for business.

 

[durhamplumber]

They already exist boyo. None are suitable for the UK/Ireland border.

Dumb quitter plan-less bastads.

Next...

Patience Timothy,,Patience.

 

[durhamplumber]

Dumb quitter plan-less bastads.

Rofl...oh dear..

 

[jasonzyx]

What I don't understand is that as most of the world is outside the EU and the EU imports millions of tons of goods from the rest of world how come the EU doesn't require a hard border to ensure that all these imports meet EU standards?

Clueless or what?

CE marking
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ce-marking​

 

[SirGalahad]

A technology solution will be found to prevent hard border..Scrap GFA about as likely as in/,out ref 2 or bumping into moses down your knitting lesssons tonite.

If the technology solution was available then why the fear over the backstop which only comes into force if there is no solution. The technological solution which the Government refers to was in a leaked report and is another flight of fancy.

You know very little about anything and certainly nothing about technology that could solve this.

How many unicorns you chasing today? DP

 

[durhamplumber]

If the technology solution was available then why the fear over the backstop which only comes into force if there is no solution. The technological solution which the Government refers to was in a leaked report and is another flight of fancy.

You know very little about anything and certainly nothing about technology that could solve this.

How many unicorns you chasing today? DP

Ask the EU that,,they wish to be awkward.

 

[durhamplumber]

You know very little about anything and certainly nothing about technology that could solve this.

Not as much as you....goes without saying.Patience Gal,,patience,,technology solution will be found ..next couple of weeks,,so have your humble pie ready.

 

[SirGalahad]

Not as much as you....goes without saying.Patience Gal,,patience,,technology solution will be found ..next couple of weeks,,so have your humble pie ready.

Unicorn pie it is.

 

[JohnD]

load of obllocks

 

[ellal]

What I don't understand is that as most of the world is outside the EU and the EU imports millions of tons of goods from the rest of world how come the EU doesn't require a hard border to ensure that all these imports meet EU standards?

Words fail...

But to explain...

If an import from a non-EU country arrives in say France it is inspected to a standard that applies to all EU/EEA countries...

Thus in this case the EU 'hard border' is in France, but if the import passes the EU standards it is then free to be distributed to all the other EU countries...

Kind of like if an import arrives from a non-EU country into the UK via Dover (hard border), then there are no restrictions (hard borders) between other UK counties.

Simples

The amount of goods passing through the Ulster border on any given day is minute compared to all the other EU borders ,so why is tiny N.Ireland such a big problem.

Ever heard of the 'Good Friday Agreement?