On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:56:24 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 11:02:51 on
Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Optimist remarked:
Countries outside the "single market" sell into it all the time.

Of course they do, but have to deal with tariffs and quotas.

Unless they sign a free trade agreement. The EU has FTAs with many countries which do not involve
adhering to the EU's single market rules.

That sounds a bit contradictory.

The EU has a free trade deal with Mexico. Does that mean Mexicans have freedom to live and work in
the EU?

Who mentioned freedom to live and work?

That's the whole point of freedom of movement rules within the single market - anyone from an EU
country can go to another in order to work even if this undermines local wage agreements.