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Hi @TomTugendhat

I just watched this video from @daily_politics

Rwanda is an EBA country. It already exports all of its goods to the EU tariff-free and quota-free.

Ghana has an EPA with the EU. It therefore already exports all of its good to the EU tariff-free and quota-free.
African exports to the EU are double the size of intra-African trade

trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20…
Partly because there are virtually no tariffs for virtually all exports from virtually all African countries.

Everything but Arms (EBA) for the least developed countries. Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) for most of the rest.

trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20…
Here's a map I made to show the trading relationship of all African countries to the EU.
Brexit threatens some of the preferential export deals that developing countries currently have with the EU as the majority of their trade is with the UK. politico.eu/article/pakist…
Extraordinary!

@TomTugendhat is Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.

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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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