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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Exactly. Why should the EU not trade with the UK? Cutting off access or sticking tariffs on EU goods makes no economic sense. The EU wants trade deals with other countries.
Currently, the EFTA States have 27 free trade agreements (covering 38 countries) with the following partners:
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canada
Central American States (Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama)
Chile
Colombia
Egypt
Georgia
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Hong Kong, China
Israel
Jordan
Korea, Republic of
Lebanon
Macedonia
Mexico
Montenegro
Morocco
Palestinian Authority
Peru
Philippines
Serbia
Singapore
Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
Combined they don't make up what they are threatening to throw away by blocking the UK. So the UK gets the trade and loses the ever tightening stranglehold of the EU bureaucrats. Plus the costs of being in a money burning club.
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paul, i do not really know what you are thinking what these countries are exporting or importing. i think you always have t-shirts in your mind.
but the fact is, that the most products are parts for machines, computers and technology.
all this machines can NOT be produced for a local market. they are mainly for export and if the export price is too high nobody out there will buy it.
in all your arguments i was reading up to here i found only ONE what i really can agree with - it is the argument about medical prices.
let me explain you what exactly i mean:
i think globalizm is not only good for economy - it also makes a lot of sense for scientific.
i.e. there are many deseases out there whare is no help for it because the "market" is too small. no pharma company will stick money into research because they can´t make profit.
with a global market for such a medication things are changing.
believe me - if only europeans, brits or americans would have HIV nobody would spend a dollar for research. but because this is a worldwide problem there is a lot of research and progress.
now the point you are RIGHT in here is, that this advantage of a global market does not reach the consumer and THIS is something our corrupt politicians are guilty and what have to be stopped.
i bought an antobiotic a few month ago in a pharmacy in Germany and paid 24,95 €
today I bought THE SAME (ever the same brand) in spain and I paid 2,37 €
and if I buy it in Thailand it cost me less than 1 Euro.
THIS is something were I would be in the first line to fight against that because health is a human right and not a privilege.
BUT
exept from that we DO HAVE this advantage from the global market in the local markets.
we CAN buy phones for a few euros - we CAN buy computers, tvs, cars for a fraction of our income - we can fly wherever in the world for just a few peanuts.
ALL that is global market and not ONE of the big industry nations can survive with out it.
even china is not able to produce that cheap anymore because people start to become prosper there. today chinese have iphones (not only the fake ones) they drive mercedes and BMW and they braught so many passengers into planes that even YOUR PLANETICKET is cheap because of them.
so what did this improt trade with china do at the end?
it brought NEW BUYERS !!!!!
even brainless trump starts to understand that because the "enemy of america" from 3 month ago, he calls now a "great guy", because even he with only 3 braincells starts to understand that the loacal market can not survive without the global.
the basic of economy is growth - and this is also a thing what you do not understand when you talk about country depts.
country depts are basicly nothing what is bad. a countries dept will always flow in the market and thats why it is an investion in the future.
germany´s schäuble (with all his success for germany) did not understand that well too.
he thinks much to conservative and risk-free to get that well done on the longterm.
the BASIC problem what EVERY FUCLING POLITICIAN IN THE WORLD HAVE is the fact that he have to make economic decisions and is getting voted from people with NOT THE SMALLEST CLUE of economy.
this is what causes the MOST mistakes, because voters can never understand them.
this is why this people have to make half-corect decisions to still be accepted on the next election.
if they NOT do it half-correct it it can happen that these amateur economists are even able to vote a corrupt and inferiority complexes eaten dumbhead to their president.