Captain Haddock wrote:Seriously Button I've never understood why countries make trade unnecessarily sticky.
As far as I can see the new agreement is that the EU will stop buggering us around just because they could.
Perhaps we and they could start doing that with goods going across the channel?
My No3 daughter is a designer with a rather famous fashion group and has one Hell of a time taking samples and half finished 'frocks' between the design studio in London and the manufacturers in Italy.
It's known as a single market or free trade association. The USA has been operating their own for donkey's years. Likewise China. And if we do ever join the much vaunted CPTTP, we'll find that they'll bugger us about in exactly the same way.
Odd, isn't it, that countries tend to trade more effectively with their nearest neighbours, particularly when the have a very high collective GDP. Confusing, I know.
Don't you ever wonder why Maggie considered our joining it her greatest achievement? Oh well. Never mind.