Thread by @EmporersNewC

The EU are negotiating a deal with Australia at the moment too, so it looks like we're going to be in a great position to compare the deal the EU got for its farmers with the best the UK government could manage.

And it's important to note that we haven't seen if the deals we've rolled over are better or not.

Because the exact same deal rolled over, doesn't mean it's equal...

For example, if an EU deal with Mexico gave them quota access of 500 million tonnes of meat, that would be a tonne of meat per person in a 500 million person market.

Roll that over to a 60 million person market, and that's a big increase in market access.

If you were watching closely some of those roll overs involved those quotas into the UK market being made even larger.

So unless you compare the export quotas in the deals to the import quotas, you can't really judge if the deals are as good.

It could be the case that the UK has opened up it's market further than it was before for zero return in access...

So...that's something to consider along with the loss of some cumulation, which admittedly the UK did try to mitigate and on occasion did pretty well under the circumstances.

Rolling over a trade deal with the same quotas should not be judged as being an equivalent deal.

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