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Meanwhile, we have a visitor early next week, a President coming bearing gifts? Or perhaps not judging by Mexico...

nytimes.com/2019/05/31/ups…
The President is also removing trade preferences from India...

livemint.com/news/india/ind…
Perhaps the best we can hope for is to recall the sacrifices made by soldiers from US, UK, and many other nationalities 75 years ago, and try our best to ignore Trump as anything other than a ceremonial Head of State - if possible

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David Henig
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From Trump back to Brexit, and we have the treat of another paper from no-deal Brexiteers - "A Clean Managed Brexit" to be launched tomorrow.

Have they finally found the way forward?

Spoiler alert: No... 1/
The summary: If the EU won't agree a temporary FTA (they won't, and it was never offered to the UK only GB), then contingency plans and alternative arrangements for a seamless Irish border (frequently debunked). Read on for more... 2/
First a brief bit of Parliamentary process. The Withdrawal Agreement is dead because it has been rejected by Parliament. No-deal, also rejected by Parliament, is therefore the only way forward... 3/
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David Henig
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Is the NHS safe from UK trade deals? Where to start with this one? US healthcare companies are already present in the UK (see e.g. theguardian.com/society/2016/f…) and the degree of private involvement in the NHS will always be a UK decision. But...
Right now we cannot say the NHS will not be affected by trade deals e.g. given US demands on drug pricing (huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-pl…), just as we can't say for certain that food standards will not be changed (use of the word lowering is not useful in this context), so...
Rather than @LiamFox getting irate when people say bad things may happen in a trade deal, it would be better for the UK to be developing trade policy much more transparently - not least as the devil will be in the detail - as I have frequently said... ecipe.org/blog/assessing…
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Given how much we're going to be talking Free Trade Agreements this week - whether UK-EU or UK-US - it is important to realise that the modern FTA is more about the locking in rules of trade rather than actual trade liberalisation 1/n
The simple average tariff of the EU (and UK) is currently 5%. 3.4% for the US. They're higher for agriculture (around 11% for the EU, 5% for the US). Just getting rid of these won't be an economic game-changer - and often they're protecting politically sensitive sectors 2/
Services? "However, in the main, services trade agreements do not lead to actual trade liberalisation" quoted from this @uk_tpo paper and many others - because services trade is really all about regulations blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/publicat… 3/
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