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Thread #162855   Message #3890549
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
26-Nov-17 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 02:49 PM
Sure, Nigel. We could get slightly cheaper, GM, grub or chlorine chicken. Groovy! Get real, Nige. The standards insisted on by the EU are GOOD standards. And tariff-free. And we are not suddenly going to find a load of cheap, eager markets selling us their food. We have to renegotiate every one of them first. They are hardly gagging for us. We will have to carry on trading in EU food for decades.


Never mind GM foods & chlorine (washed) chicken. Those are not the EUs sole imports (in fact the EU prevents their import)
How about Coffee (not much of that grown in EU) There may be no tariffs when it is sold on within the EU but as I pointed out above, by that stage the import tariff has already been paid, and will be included as part of the cost (without showing as a tariff) when sold on within the EU.

If you don't understand the matter of import tariffs then continuing to claim that we get stuff "Tariff Free" within the EU shows a lamentable lack of understanding.