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Jim Grace @mac_puck
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@ChicoMarxBros @andrew_lilico Importing is not the problem (other than Calais gridlocked with UK trucks trying and failing to enter the EU). We can always waive essential imports through and sod the WTO rules...it beats starving.

But virtually all our exports will stop overnight.

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@ChicoMarxBros @andrew_lilico By "virtually all" I mean
- The 50% that go to the EU, Switzerland and Norway via the Internal Market, based upon EU product and exporter approvals.
- The 15% that go to 3rd countries with EU trade agreements, whose acceptance of our goods is based on their EU certs.
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@ChicoMarxBros @andrew_lilico ...Much of the 15% we export to the USA. (Although there is no over-arching trade deal between the US and EU, much of our trade depends upon over 40 sectoral deals covering air-craft and parts, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, customs procedures etc which lapse on 29 Mar)
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