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Hello Ian.

This site shows you the average tariff of 177 countries according to the World Bank. There are 131 countries more protectionist that the EU. That leaves only 18 less protectionist.

indexmundi.com/facts/indicato…
Furthermore all of the highlighted countries on this map have non-reciprocal trading preferences or free trade deals with the EU that mean they are exempt from the Common External Tariff.
Here's another way of illustrating that. Firstly here is a list of countries that the USA has a Free Trade Deal with:
And here is a list of the countries the EU has a Free Trade Deal with:
Hi @IainDale, are you following me so far?

Here is a list of those preferences I mentioned earlier. The countries in red and yellow benefit from total the elimination of tariffs on all goods imported into the EU.

Check yourself on this UK Gov site: gov.uk/government/pub…
Hi Ian, I'm looking forward to your response. I'm anticipating some reference to oranges, tomatoes or coffee, or more likely total silence.
Oh, worth reading this LSE blog BTW.
Oh news just in! I'll post this first...
That from from this Evening Standard article published on Thursday.
I used the ITC Market Access site and looked at the USA applied tariff across the 21 HS sections and compared it with that of the UK (for EU) both from 2017. Red indicates a higher tariffs, green lower.

USA: macmap.org/CountryAnalysi… …

UK: macmap.org/CountryAnalysi… …
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Where's the rebuttal to Lilley's paper that Dominic Grieve referred to?
Prof Winters article? politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
No that's from August. Same nonsense from Lilley though.
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@_HenryBolton This complete nonsense. The 20% figure is pure fantasy.

On the majority of goods imported into the UK tariffs don't apply because they are imported:

1 From EU
2 From FTA partners at 0%
3 From developing countries at 0%
4 Under a tariff quota at 0%
5 On a 0% tariff rating anyway
@_HenryBolton Before the UK joined the EEC in 1973 we had tariffs and quota restrictions on non-Commonwealth and even some Commonwealth goods that were higher than the EEC's Common External Tariff, and after Brexit we will still have tariffs. The Dept of Intl Trade has no plans to reduce them.
@_HenryBolton EU tariff rates are on the more liberal side compared to other nations and because of EU Trade preferences and free trade deals they do mot apply in many cases.

The World Bank published a report on trade preferences a few months ago.

documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655…
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