hkloss1:
How about free trade deal with China, population over a billion vs our population of just over 60 millions (and that’s thanks to the influx of those unwanted eastern European immigrants, otherwise we would be even more insignificant).
China currently as a country higher purchasing power than the USA, that’s why the US is relocating as much hardware to the pacific as they can
Some time ago I remember I watched a documentary about China on YT, it was something about China’s trying to feed itself, agriculture, they said apparently China permits double chemical doses on their fields what EU permits ( can’t remember exactly what chemicals they were) and that’s why chinese fields, crops look so green , lush.
Plus because there is so much industrial development everywhere chinese food contains high amounts of carcinogenic metals.
From that time I stopped buying chinese foods which I liked to buy from time to time from chinese shops.
Not sure if anyone remembers there used to be free trade talks going on between the USA and the EU, they were going on for many, many years, they collapsed at the end because the American food wasn’t meeting high EU standards.
Yes, EU is not the quickest to strike new free trade deals, because they do things on their own terms, 500 million population, mostly reach consumers can afford to do deal at their own pace and their own terms and conditions.
You meet our standards with your products or we don’t do deal with you, simple.
There are some airlines that are not allowed to fly to EU because they do not meet EU safety records.
So, what chance a little UK has out there to strike a good deal with others.
That’s why all over the world we are the laughing stock, people shake their heads wondering what are we doing here.
Now, about those insignificant antibiotics so common in american food, that we will have to permit to our markets.
Take a look at this scientific research.
news.sky.com/story/superbugs-to … n-11532307
|t’s not what mu mate told me yesterday at that [zb] RDC waiting room, or what I might have read on trucknetuk.
Firstly our shops are flooded with Chinese imports anyway so what difference does being or not being an EU member state have in that regard.At best Chinese purchasing power only comes from the cash that we give them for their exports made by effectively slave labour IE they’ve got nothing to offer except virtually slave labour.While there’s no way that China will change its one sided trade policy because it’s our cash which is paying for their economic growth and military build up which they’ll eventually use to take what they want from us not buy it.On that note why do you view a larger population with more mouths to feed and more people to look after as a supposed advantage in either case.
As for EU food standards you mean like unpasteurised dairy products and sewage thrown on crops as a fertiliser and why would food standards also stop the free trade of US manufacturing products like cars and trucks and their components.While VAT and other taxes makes the EU anything but a so called ‘free trade area’ such as selling cars to Denmark.
As for ‘super bugs’ personal experience unfortunately tells me that the natural biological resistance and terrible effects of Pseudonomas for example which can be found anywhere is far more of a problem than any supposed effects of eating US beef.
While it’s obvious that maintaining food standards isn’t mutually exclusive with telling US food exporters that UK bound food products have to meet UK food standards just as US bound exports have to meet US ones.On that note exactly what ‘safety’ grounds would the EU have to stop UK airlines flying within the EU after Brexit ?.