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Re:Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU by rwmj on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:28PM (#23890412)
That's before you get to WTO MFN which would mean we would have to reduce tariffs to zero not just for the EU but for the whole of the world, so our farmers would be competing against low wages everywhere. It would devastate our farmers in short order.
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Re:Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU by scott_w on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:01PM (#23892035)
Yeah, I thought about this but I honestly don't know enough about how it works e.g. are countries allowed to bar food from coming into a country for not meeting safety standards even though they've set global tariffs to 0?

My gut says "yes" which is why I decided to shy away from that part.

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Re:Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU by rwmj on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:51PM (#23892745)
Yes, those are the famous NTBs (non-tariff barriers). Since tariffs, apart from agriculture, are generally very low nowadays a lot of aim of free trade agreements is about reducing NTBs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-tariff_barriers_to_trade

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