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Thread #162855   Message #3883964
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
23-Oct-17 - 03:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 22 Oct 17 - 10:37 AM
We do not trade under WTO rules with non-EU countries as we will have to once we leave, not to speak of the tariff barriers with the EU that'll spring up. We will desperately have to make new trading deals with countries a lot less desperate than us to do deals (the US, for example) and we will have to stick to the rules about level playing fields for tariffs. Brave faces don't butter no parsnips,


Two points in that paragraph:
1, We will have to trade under WTO rules once we leave.
2, We will have to make new trading deals with countries less desperate than us.

Ok, so which is it?