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Peter Ungphakorn
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A perfect example of Nigel Farage (1) refusing to listen (2) refusing to let others speak (3) denying he said something that he did say (about Norway and Switzerland, and on @bbcquestiontime).

He had said it on #bbcqt. It's a running issue. Shouldn't #bbcqt have been prepared?
Sorry to bang on about last night's @bbcquestiontime.

Fiona Bruce failed to get beyond the level of "stop bickering".

One of the issues at the heart of this is truth v untruth. She was unwilling to let participants debate that, so Farage in particular got away with lots of fibs
Here's why it matters

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Peter Ungphakorn
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Perhaps it’s time for programmes like @bbcr4today (and @bbcpm) to do a short item on GATT Art.24 (and GATS Art.5, too).

It keeps being wrongly cited as here👇🏾, or by Richard Tice/Nigel Farage/the Brexit Party, or in the “Malthouse compromise”



1/7
This would get rid—once and for all—of the idea that GATT Art24 is a solution to “no deal”. No! It requires a deal.

It would also stop the senseless practice of citing a technicality no one will check in order to *appear* scholarly & authoritative.

2/7
tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/war… Screenshot of slide on GATT Art24 often cited incorrectly, and comment
This 👇🏾 is totally wrong.

GATT Art 24 means there’s a deal.

A deal the EU and UK both agree on.

There already is one (sort of). It’s called the Withdrawal Agreement.

3/7
tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/war… Screenshot of slide captioned
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Peter Ungphakorn
@CoppetainPU
I don't recall American farmers being "forgotten".

Let me check.

1/6 Screenshots of Trump's tweets about US farmers being forgotten
Here's the American Farm Bureau Federation, "the voice of agricultural producers at all levels"

2018 Farm Bill. $428bn for 5 years, $867bn for 10.

2/6
fb.org/market-intel/r… Screen shot of Figure 1. 2018 Farm Bill Spending, 5- and 10-year baseline
And here's the US government (US Dept of Agriculture). Same numbers.

3/6
ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-ec… Screenshot of graphic:
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Peter Ungphakorn
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This has popped up again. I wouldn't RT.

If we're going to debate tariffs, let's be absolutely clear.

"WTO tariffs" don't exist.

Both sets are "EU tariffs".

The 0% apply to imports inside the EU & from free trade partners. The others are EU tariffs on imports from elsewhere.
Repeat after me:

There's no such thing as WTO tariffs
There's no such thing as WTO tariffs
There's no such thing as WTO tariffs

These are both EU tariffs
These are both EU tariffs
These are both EU tariffs

Why are they EU tariffs? See the next tweet

Here's why they are EU tariffs.

They are the EU's tariffs based on its commitments in the WTO. No one else in the WTO has these tariffs.

(Technical note: "based on" = average MFN applied rates, not bound rates)

Just so you know.

wto.org/english/res_e/… Screenshot of linked WTO page on EU tariff profiles
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