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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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