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Thread #162855   Message #3928391
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
01-Jun-18 - 03:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Donuel - PM
Date: 31 May 18 - 05:46 PM
The UK is now subject to our tariffs on US Steel
Trumpy hates Theresa for her insults but likes Turnbull so Oz gets an exception


Just a little correction to this.
Trump will impose tariffs on EU (not UK alone). It is not, then, a response to Theresa May.
If we were no longer part of the EU we may have been able to discuss this separately, but we are currently bound in a single customs union with the rest of the EU, so have to accept deals and tariffs the same as the rest.
If these tariffs are the result of a failure in negotiation, it is a failure by the EU, not by the UK.