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Oh look! We can make beneficial treaties with the EU without being a member! Yay brexit!
Edit: not /s
Feels like when a bunch of kids steal my shirt and throw it around. Then when I finally catch it I think I've won. Except all I did really was get my shirt back and they've thrown my shoes in the bushes.
Except there are no kids, you did it all to yourself. Making us twice as crazy
Yep. By following EU rules on the items we sell. With no control of those rules. Exactly as remainers claimed.
On items we sell to the EU. Critical omission.
Nope. We are required to keep our food standards equal to the EU.
So also on items we sell to ourselves. Not an omission at all. And the very point that brexiters kept arguing. We have always been able to sell to other nations using Thier standards. We are not allowed to accept other standards.
You're claiming that the deal with the EU contains clauses which obligate the UK to use the EU's rules for food sold domestically in the UK?
States it in the article
I can't see any mention of domestic sales, could you quote the part you're referring to?
Reread.
Alignment of UK food standards. Means our own standards must continue to meet the EUs.
This is the only reason the EU will ever accept removal of documentation confirming the standards followed in food it will eat.
And exactly what remainers claimed about EU trade throughout the ref.
It is also the exact reason the US trade deals keep failing. Their food standards do not meet ours. So importing US food into the UK would mean deals like this. Where our food standards must align are impossible.
It really is not that complex. If your standards don't meet those of the folks your selling to. Your companies are required to proove the items sold meet their standards not yours. Hence all the last 4 years of difficulties selling to the EU. Has been created by brexiters insisting we should not follow EU aligned standards. Creating the same mountains of paperwork any nation with differing standards face selling to the EU.
The same reason the US wants us to accept chlorinated chicken. So they do not have to proove all their chicken is kept to the same standards we currently require.
They can sell chicken to us now if they are willing to breed it as we do and provide evidence at each import that they did so. Just like we are with the EU now.
But a trade deal giving them simple trade would require alignment between our rules.
All those ISO EN and CE standards you see on electronics and toys. Are the same thing for non food standards. If China wants to sell crap to the UK they need that documention. Of course it's up to the UK to enforce those standards. Hence why non aligned crap gets in. But food tends to be closer watched.