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The UK announced it was considering whether to join the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) convention as part of its new trade strategy published last week, arguing it could help boost the UK’s flagging goods exports. However, the European Commission has made clear to the UK that it would not currently support such a move, according to four people familiar with discussions

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 day ago

      9 years now post ref. Of UK govs and media arguments.

      “The UK should not follow any forign rules”

      Hardly surprising the one thing that requires some agreement on unified rules. Every trade agreement ever signed.

      Is not something anyone trust the UK on.

      It stuns me the % of Brits who seem to fail to understand. Ensuring simplification of products meeting each others rules is the main point of any trade agreement. Taxes and fees. Really represents very little challenge compared to that.

      And all the EU trade issues the UK has faced since Brexit. Relate to the cost and complexity Brits and their customers face proving products are made to the very rules, Brexit twonks keep complaining about and wanting to remove.