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We don't need a trade deal with the USA We don't need a trade deal with the EU If we sing' The White Cliffs Of Dover ' enough times, Britain will be great again.

Once Joe Biden wins, he can probably increase trade with the EU enormously. It will help the economies of both sides massively.

You don't put children in cages. Ever. Only the most vile of organisations would do that.

There quality of life is higher,, the standard of living is higher and the gap between rich and poor is much lower. Brits find Denmark expensive because we are a poor country in comparison. And they are World Badminton Champions

Denmark's minimum wage is around 16 dollars an hour. Ours should be too

Trump has also separated children from their parents and then put the children in cages. Has the USA voted for Biden.? The man reportedly wants closer integration with the European Union? Time will tell if he is victorious.

If it's true we are buying 20 Million Covid vaccines from Germany. Why on earth are we not buying them from USA or producing our own? Perhaps Germany's pharmaceutical industry is much more advanced than ours? After all it is a much more important and wealthier country than ours?

Let's keep pigs in crates so small that they don't have enough room to turn round in. That's what we voted for. We couldn't care less about livestock.

I'm not keeping up am I ? Is Anglers Mail going monthly?

We can start our car industry up and be the envy of the world. Rover will dominate once again We can turn our backs on Sweden and Germany and become the next state of Donald Trump's USA. That's what the British public have voted for

We have the fifteenth highest standard of living in Europe. Our economy clearly needs to do much better.

I turned 51 recently. I have had the best year of my life,ignore all these old farts and enjoy yourself. Live and live disgracefully I say !

I knew a Doreen once. Her knees were in good shape. She fell to her knees surprisingly often ?

Ayjay did you buy the Alessi one which is excellent quality? Or did you buy a cheap one which will quickly end up on landfill, because it lasts no time at all? I bet you're a Citroen driver

If I wanted a potato peeler, I would go to the Lakeland website for one or try my local kitchen accessory store. Amazon treat their warehouse staff with utter contempt. So why would I shop there? Lakeland treat their staff extremely well. Why not pay the extra and care for employees?

I'm just waiting for the German car industry to demand that Angela Merkel gives us a good trade deal. We don't need German cars, we can resurrect the Rover brand and become world leaders again. ,?

How can this woman attempt to convince people that local Covid testing is available? My friend who lives in Lancaster has been told she needs to drive to Hexham if she wants a test? It's well over 100 miles away. This woman is a serial liar and needs to be demoted.

Ken Are you really happy with more cheap imported Chinese goods? There is a good chance some poor soul is being 'persuaded' against their will to produce them. If not, they are almost certainly being paid a pittance. But that doesn't matter does it

We could do with getting our border controls organised. It'll be chaos if we don't.

With or without the EU, the German economy dwarfs ours and will always outperform the UK one. A manufacturing economy performs much better than a services one.

We can break free from the shackles of EU law and have a similar standard of living as Norway. Norway has a huge trade deal with Canada and also the EU. I suggest we stay very clear of the USA. Trump is an absolute moron and we can survive without them.

I like spare ribs. I don't fancy eating roast cat though.Or enzyme-injected pork for that matter?

Be like Mauritania. Where 17 per cent of the population live under slavery.

Open in app Get started Who actually trades solely under WTO rules? James Hardy Oct 21, 2017 · 4 min read WTO Flag © World Trade Organisation The likelihood of the UK crashing out of the EU seems to be increasing with every step of the negotiation. For those of us that believe in the merits of the EU, this would be a disaster, but the counter point used by some opponents of the EU[1] is that, even if we leave with no deal, we can fall back onto the tariffs agreed under the World Trade Organisation Recently, the pro-brexit group Leave.EU shared an image sharing a claim made by Richard Tice. “WTO rules are what most great countries trade under. If it’s good enough for Australia, America and Canada, it’s good enough for the UK” When I saw this, I was a little skeptical. I know that America and Canada are both in a Free Trade Area with Mexico, and Canada’s Free-Trade agreement with the EU has only just come into effect. I wasn’t too sure about Australia, but I looked it up. Turns out they have free-trade agreements with China, South Korea, the USA, New Zealand and others. Couldn’t Mr Tice have come up with a better example? For a geek like me who likes data, that seemed a like an interesting question: What is the biggest economy that does not have any Free Trade agreements other than membership in the WTO? Manual Attempt I figured this would be pretty easy. All I needed was to bring up the list of countries by GDP, and then search on Google for that country and the phrase “Free Trade agreement” I got to number 20 (Saudi Arabia — a member of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area) before I got bored. Remembering Larry Wall’s first virtue (laziness) I decided to spend two hours writing a script to find the data for me rather than one hour going through the data. The Script Non-techies, please feel free to skip this section So while Googling, I came across the WTO website which, it turns out, has a database of trade-agreements that member countries have notified them of. Unfortunately you can’t run arbitrary queries on the database, but luckily the countries were all referred to by their ISO-3166 numeric codes, therefore, if I took a list of countries, I could downloaded each one and read the list of agreements. For this I use the BeautifulSoup library and inserted the data into some simple Django models I created. I have uploaded the source code to GitHub in case anybody wants to play around with it. The Results Once I had the data, I could write a query to return all the countries that lacked any agreements. Upon running it, I found that many of the returned countries weren’t actually countries at all, but dependent territories like Bermuda and Puerto Rico. I therefore manually removed these. I was then left with this list: Holy See Mauritania Monaco Montenegro Palau Timor-Leste Sao Tome and Principe Serbia Somalia South Sudan Sudan Western Sahara However again, I knew this wasn’t right Serbia and Montenegro are both members of CEFTA, so I investigated further. It turns out that neither are a member of WTO, which is why they have not notified the WTO of their agreements. So I then compared this list with a list of WTO members and removed any that were not members. The next step would have been to order these by GDP, but that turned out to be unnecessary, as there is only one country in the world that trades only under WTO rules. That country: MAURITANIA For those of you not familiar with Mauritania, it’s GDP is $4,714million (0.2% of the UK’s), 50% of its exports consist of Iron Ore, and between 1% and 17% of the population still live in slavery. It appears that this is the country that Leave.UK wish to emulate. I am afraid that this is not a vision for Britain’s future that I can share. A more accurate image Update Others (thank you Alan Bell et al.) have take my work and investigated Mauritania further. It turns out that while they don’t have any current bilateral or multilateral free trade deals, it does benefit from preferential treatment from certain developed nations (the EU amongst them), where Mauritania’s exports in certain categories (everything but arms) are not charged import duties, but those countries goods can have tariffs added when being imported into Mauritania. As this is a form of aid for a developing country, I think that it is not something that the UK is likely to obtain, so for the purposes of debate referring to “no deal” as the “Mauritania Option” is not entirely inaccurate and could be a useful shorthand. [1] Though by no means all, the Leave Alliance for example describe a no-deal as “akin with performing separation surgery on conjoined twins with a hammer and chisel without anaesthetic, hoping that the weaker one will live.” Trade Wto Brexit Politics Django 2.1Kclaps WRITTEN BY James Hardy Follow London-Based Web developer originally from Essex. Radical Liberal, Confirmed Geek, Proud European. 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It must be hard for Angela. Germany is a manufacturing economy ours isn't. Mauritania trades on WTO terms. Don't be like the EU. Be like Mauritania