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1/ The natural state of affairs between nations is not free trade, it is regulated trade and protection internal markets and jobs from foreign competition. "Free trade" is a very modern concept and something that has to be earned between partners. And even then...
1/ The natural state of affairs between nations is not free trade, it is regulated trade and protection internal markets and jobs from foreign competition. "Free trade" is a very modern concept and something that has to be earned between partners. And even then...
2/ The EU may be protectionist from a British point of view (a rather unfair view considering for example that it is in practice much less protectionist than
.The EU has more and better trade deals with the world at large than any other country or group of countries...
.The EU has more and better trade deals with the world at large than any other country or group of countries...
3/&of course no one else has ever managed to establish freer international trade than what
has between the nations of the single market.
uses a 19th century http://model.No country in
will sign FTAs withthat give it better conditions it had as a member.
has between the nations of the single market.uses a 19th century http://model.No country inwill sign FTAs withthat give it better conditions it had as a member.
4/might see itself as a free trade nation but no one else that matters in the world really want that kind of buccaneering ‘free trade’ unless they know that they have such an advantage over the UK that it will be all for their benefit.
might see itself as a free trade nation but no one else that matters in the world really want that kind of buccaneering ‘free trade’ unless they know that they have such an advantage over the UK that it will be all for their benefit.
5/ Take a look at all the trade deals nations like the ,
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have signed with other nations and the depth/width of access that those FTAs offer and then take a look at the vastly superior FTAs the EU has signed around the world.
, ,, , , , , , have signed with other nations and the depth/width of access that those FTAs offer and then take a look at the vastly superior FTAs the EU has signed around the world.
6/The Japan-EU,Korea-EU&Ceta treatieshas signed are better,deeper treaties than ANY,Korea,have signed with anyone else(including NAFTA,which has almost no services provision).as a better trade framework with or that these 2 countries have with each other.
has signed are better,deeper treaties than ANY,Korea,have signed with anyone else(including NAFTA,which has almost no services provision).as a better trade framework with or that these 2 countries have with each other.
