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(Optimist) wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:02:14 +0100, "tim..."
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"Recliner" wrote in message

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Optimist wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:23:19 +0100, Roland Perry
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In message , at 17:57:23
on Sun, 17 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.

But that trade involves a lot more paperwork than trade within the
single market. So, although there aren't tariffs, the trade isn't
frictionless.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36083664

Though the argument is, that that friction is a price worth paying in
order to simplify our trade with ROW (and even intra-UK, for that matter)

Fully analysed, that pov might not be right, but Remainers can't simply
dismiss it as not existing (which is the generally the approach used so
far)

The rules apply both ways. It will cost EU countries also to sell to the
UK, and they sell to us far more than we buy from them. So in my view
they will want to do a deal. The Germans already do.

Ah! The old British Imperial arrogance! The EU has plenty of trading
opportunities without the UK and can afford to be hard bon us as we can
afford to be hard on them, nearly 10 times the size.

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Colin Rosenstiel