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Peter Ungphakorn
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For heaven's sake John Humphrys @BBCr4today if you're going to ask Mark Carney about GATT Art24 why on earth don't you find out first what it is? It's about free trade agreements in goods. Doesn't apply with no deal.

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Here it is wto.org/english/res_e/…
Here's an explanation tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/one…
Sorry it was so bad I had to break my moratorium on tweeting about Art24. Whatever happened to journalists doing their homework before an interview? Mr Humphrys? @BBCr4today?

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Peter Ungphakorn
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"It’s not that difficult."

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This is where the (a) and (b) come from

And here is another response.

I am flabbergasted that Art24 is edging to centre stage of the leadership campaign.

Can we all agree to kill it? Art24 doesn't matter. It's the content—what can be negotiated and when—that matter

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Peter Ungphakorn
@CoppetainPU
First the good news.

We have a better explanation of GATT Article 24 from ardent Leavers, @MPIainDS and @DCBMEP.

Their description of Art24 is mainly correct. Mainly.

And the bad news? I’ll come to that in a few of tweets.



1/24
THE GOOD NEWS

1. They largely get GATT Art24 right. They define GATT Art24 as the WTO rule that allows free trade agreements. They even refer to GATT Art1.

Quibbles: a. it’s only about trade in GOODS, not services. b. You don’t “lower” quotas.

2/24

brexitcentral.com/the-facts-abou… Screenshot of first 2 paragraphs of point 5)
2. @DCBMEP is no longer describing GATT Art24 as something to use in an emergency 👇🏾. (He blocked me when I pointed out this was wrong)

Everyone now accepts there has to be a deal. We are not talking about "no deal".

3/24 Screenshot of David Bannerman tweet with image, saying
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Peter Ungphakorn
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I thought/hoped it would die away, but it's become headline news—the favourite to be UK PM wants to use it …

So here are answers to frequently & rarely asked questions about GATT Art24.

1. General
2. With-deal leavers
3. No-deal leavers
4. Remainers/revokers *SURPRISE*

1 /21 Screenshot. Text of GATT Art24, paragraph 5 (link in later tweet)
1. IN GENERAL

a. DOES GATT COVER SERVICES?

No. GATT only deals with trade in goods.

If you only talk about GATT Art24, you are excluding any agreement in services.

The equivalent is GATS Art 5

wto.org/english/docs_e…

2 /21 Screenshot of GATS Article 5 paragraphs 1 and 4
b. START WITH GATT ART1 (some do, many don’t) — non-discrimination between trading partners.

If UK allows imports duty-free from EU, it must do the same “immediately” for all other WTO members, except …

(“contracting parties” now = WTO members)

3 /21

wto.org/english/docs_e… Screenshot of GATT Article 1 (MFN)
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