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This BrexitCentral article is an abridged version of an article posted by the same author on Lawyers for Britain. It's full of factual errors, but I don't have the time to go into them all.

Here's the original article by @lawyers4britain

lawyersforbritain.org/leaving-the-eu…
The wording of this paragraph has changed but it#s still wrong. The "maximum level of tariffs" are the bound tariffs. On July 24 the UK submitted it's MFN tariff schedule to the WTO, That's the rate that will be charged under the MFN principle.
Here's the first page of the UK's sumission. It is identical to the EU's tariff schedule and specifies that it's the MFN Tariff.

src.bna.com/AA1
The article repeats again the mistaken claims by Dan Lewis and Kevin Dowd about quintupling the tariff on oranges.

No time to look at the rest right now.

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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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This really disgusts me. Back in 2015 Owen Patterson was promoting Brexit on the basis that we would leave the "political institutions" but remain members of the EEA/Single Market, possibly joining EFTA and be "big players" at the WTO.

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He said 4.5-5 million jobs due to the Single Market/EEA. We can be really big players in EEA/EFTA post-Brexit - Owen Patterson from 2015.

Owen Patterson 2019 - Gung-ho WTO.
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Patterson 2015 - We could become really active in the EEA. Big players on the World Stage and at the WTO.

Erm... Japan's economy is twice the size of the UK's and they get marginalised at the WTO. See follow up tweet.

Patterson 2019 - Gung-ho WTO.
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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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