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Or the USoE can threaten to keep vaccines from Northern Ireland.It can also decide to break a treaty it signed, and other sovereign nations can take a view on that in future negotiations.
Let's play the whataboutery game.
Or the USoE can threaten to keep vaccines from Northern Ireland.It can also decide to break a treaty it signed, and other sovereign nations can take a view on that in future negotiations.
Business always finds a way.
You use that face slapping emoji quite a lot, there are other options.Yes British businesses employ more people from the EU instead of British people. That’s a great advantage of Brexit, more unemployment and then employment tax paid to other countries, genius Lets take back control
sorry, if you wanted me to discuss your point I don't see the need to, I am out of the USoE now, i can't be forced to. However, under Scottish law I could be charged for thinking bad things and we want to rejoin the USoE, happy days.
Let me guess, all the questions are "what is better now when all I see is worse?" (or something similar, maybe in a mexican voice but could be Greek I suppose)You're right of course I can't force you to discuss a point, particularly if it doesn't have a nice answer that fits being out of the EU narrative. A bit like a load of the Brexit focussed politicians, don't answer the question and then bury their head in the sand and hope it all gets better by itself
Was thinking more like what’s the plan Batman?Let me guess, all the questions are "what is better now when all I see is worse?" (or something similar, maybe in a mexican voice but could be Greek I suppose)
Do what the British always do, knuckle down and work on it.Was thinking more like what’s the plan Batman?
My last comment is relevant to the postponement of full and proper customs and PS checks required by treaties your reply on vaccines is the whataboutism.Or the USoE can threaten to keep vaccines from Northern Ireland.
Let's play the whataboutery game.
Our treaty obligations are to comply with export products going to the EU and making sure the products we produce at present meet EU standards which they do.My last comment is relevant to the postponement of full and proper customs and PS checks required by treaties your reply on vaccines is the whataboutism.
You might find that the WTO might not agree with your take here. Unless, of course, you are proposing this as policy across the board. ie from all trading partners.Our treaty obligations are to comply with export products going to the EU and making sure the products we produce at present meet EU standards which they do.
Our import border checks are not in the treaty, would be a bit strange if we were told to check everything coming into the UK if we didn't want to.
Well the WTO can take us to task for not doing border checks we don't want to do and lets see where that gets them. Doesn't really matter if we say 5 countries will have no checks or 275 countries, we are the ones checking, or not in this case.You might find that the WTO might not agree with your take here. Unless, of course, you are proposing this as policy across the board. ie from all trading partners.
You're right, of course. Perhaps we should leave the WTO as well. As what you go on to suggest is in direct contravention of their rules.Well the WTO can take us to task for not doing border checks we don't want to do and lets see where that gets them.
Agrippa, understands. I wasn’t referring to the UK - EU treaty. MFN is a mainstay of the WTO, and any nation can lodge a complaint against any nation abusing MFN. Plus it will rear its head in any future treaty or rollover negotiations. This seems to be a feature of many in the ERG sphere of influence. Free trade is regarded as swashbuckling and devil may care to rules. Rules are for losers apparently.Well the WTO can take us to task for not doing border checks we don't want to do and lets see where that gets them. Doesn't really matter if we say 5 countries will have no checks or 275 countries, we are the ones checking, or not in this case.
Sorry, what rule are we breaking, can you give me a direct example of a rule we are in breach of by deferring checks until 2022?Agrippa, understands. I wasn’t referring to the UK - EU treaty. MFN is a mainstay of the WTO, and any nation can lodge a complaint against any nation abusing MFN. Plus it will rear its head in any future treaty or rollover negotiations. This seems to be a feature of many in the ERG sphere of influence. Free trade is regarded as swashbuckling and devil may care to rules. Rules are for losers apparently.
An explainer. Under the WTO agreements, countries cannot normally discriminate between their trading partners. Grant someone a special favour (such as a lower customs duty rate for one of their products) and you have to do the same for all other WTO members.Sorry, what rule are we breaking, can you give me a direct example of a rule we are in breach of by deferring checks until 2022?
WTO | What is the WTO?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers...www.wto.org
Oh dear, didn't realise, then thought of...An explainer. Under the WTO agreements, countries cannot normally discriminate between their trading partners. Grant someone a special favour (such as a lower customs duty rate for one of their products) and you have to do the same for all other WTO members.
I believe the customs and phytosanitary checks are only suspended on import from the EU, and extant on other third countries.
Oh dear, didn't realise, then thought of...
What Is a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)?
A free trade agreement is a pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them. Under a free trade policy, goods and services can be bought and sold across international borders with little or no government tariffs, quotas, subsidies, or prohibitions to inhibit their exchange.
Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Definition: How It Works, With Example
A free trade agreement reduces barriers to imports and exports between countries by eliminating all or most tariffs, quotas, subsidies, and prohibitions.www.investopedia.com
Would like to see that argument go to court, oh which court as we are not under the ECJ and there is no real international court to go to as the WTO has no real power?
So in summation, if two or more countries decide to have no tariffs or checks that is just peachy but if only one side of the transaction decides not to bother checking incoming trade until 2022 that is something that the WTO must stamp down on?
Thank you for the detailed information.Trump killed off the appellate body of the WTO (and Biden hasn't done anything to resurrect it) forcing the larger blocks to set up their own court .
If the UK has problems with how the EU operates under the WTO then these days it would be an Appellate Court established by the EU and 15 other WTO Member States
If the UK doesn't want to operate under the same rules then this Court and its 15 members (including Australia, China and Canada) can make you pay additional import tariffs until you fall into line
So basically the UK would find itself paying something like a 1% fine on all tariffs (or more likely selected tariffs) on exports to those members until it complies with the WTO rules.
One Brexit plus, it's made a new job available. Hiring someone to identify the advantages...
Cat boy won't give it time, well I never.So all those MPs, cabinet ministers and assorted stooges who kept on telling us that Brexit would give us a shedload of new opportunities actually had no idea what they were or even might be? Well I never...
Jog on. I have little intention of responding further to your nasty little remarks.Cat boy won't give it time, well I never.
What he posted is true though isn’t it? If a job role is being created to “identify external opportunities”, does that mean IDS is unable to do it?Cat boy won't give it time, well I never.
He said "So all those MPs, cabinet ministers and assorted stooges "What he posted is true though isn’t it? If a job role is being created to “identify external opportunities”, does that mean IDS is unable to do it?
Iain Duncan Smith appointed post-Brexit Britain government adviser
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has been given a new role as a government adviser following Brexit.www.theneweuropean.co.uk
“He will chair the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform (TIGRR) alongside Theresa Villiers and George Freeman.”
Rather than your usual childish name calling, why not just have a civil debate?
How about the actual TIGRR task force that was setup to do exactly what this new external “consultant” is apparently being recruited for? Is IDS a Remainer too?He said "So all those MPs, cabinet ministers and assorted stooges "
Most of them didn't want to leave the EU, not surprised they have to find someone to actually want to make a success of Brexit as they couldn't find anyone internally.
Discussion enough?