TheBigShort
Registered User
- Messages
- 2,789
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0717/979174-eu_japan/
Im not too au fait on the details of these matters, but on the face of it I assume that as the UK is still part of the EU it is also a beneficiary of this EU and Japan free trade deal?
However, when it leaves the EU it will, apparently, try to negotiate its own free trade deal with Japan?
But as far I as I know, under WTO rules, Japan will not be in a position to negotiate better t&c for the UK over the EU? The EU would be mightily pee-d off I would imagine and it would undermine this new deal?
So the best the UK can hope for is a free-trade deal with Japan equal to this deal with the EU (of which the UK is already a part of).
Is the madness of Brexit not obvious or am I missing something?
Im not too au fait on the details of these matters, but on the face of it I assume that as the UK is still part of the EU it is also a beneficiary of this EU and Japan free trade deal?
However, when it leaves the EU it will, apparently, try to negotiate its own free trade deal with Japan?
But as far I as I know, under WTO rules, Japan will not be in a position to negotiate better t&c for the UK over the EU? The EU would be mightily pee-d off I would imagine and it would undermine this new deal?
So the best the UK can hope for is a free-trade deal with Japan equal to this deal with the EU (of which the UK is already a part of).
Is the madness of Brexit not obvious or am I missing something?