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Originally Posted by planenut
Taxation, duties, and quotas exist which will need to be re-negotiated. We pay varied amount of duty dependent on the source of the product.
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One thing that we should benefit from post Brexit is being able to source food from across the world at far lower cost than we are forced to pay now via the EU’s CAP - common agricultural policy.
The EU’s agricultural tariffs are a whopping three times higher than the EU’s overall trade tariffs.
And the EU has stubbornly refused to bring agricultural tariffs down. This is a protectionist ploy to protect inefficient EU farmers.
I don’t like Trump - but I do wonder at the hypocrisy of some within the EU who shout “unfair” over his plan to apply tariffs to steel and aluminium when they have been doing exactly this themselves in the area of agriculture.