Reply to post: Re: Why a trade deal with the US won't be in our favour..

Re: Why a trade deal with the US won't be in our favour..

@sed gawk

"We are much smaller, with industries unable to compete in the levels of scale, afforded by the American landscape, and as such we have higher costs to produce the same agricultural products, e.g. beef."

Ok. So cheaper food.

"As other have explained the additional checks on produce, is likely to damage our local food production industry due to the flood of cheaper imports"

Aka we wont be forced to buy expensive stuff but instead have choice. And people will freely be able to choose, for themselves. Not dictated to buy the most expensive.

"Higher costs, increased competition are unlikely to be helpful."

Why? Increased competition lowers prices and reduces costs.

"Finally given the well publicised American objection to country of origin labelling, our processed food exports will be assumed to contain non-eu sourced meats, unless we are able to prove otherwise."

Why would we restrict ourselves to EU sourced meats. FFS one of the huge advantages of leaving is not being restricted to their protectionism. A non-meat example- we are protectionist against oranges because Spain wants to protect itself against South Africa. We leave and we have no reason to protect our orange growing industry (do we even have one?).

A trade deal either way means we need to agree standards for what we will accept and what they will accept. Doesnt matter who that deal is with. Our domestic standards are ours and should be for us.