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4 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I mean, this is kinda funny.
Enough of the sausages stuff, if the UK really wants to pick a fight with the EU/France, this is how you do it.
Rename cheddar cheese Feta, just because you can.
(The withdrawal agreement means the UK actually can’t [at least without consequences], but still. Humour me.)

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17 Jun
So unless I’m misunderstanding the UK-Australia AIP, it’s not actually duty and quota free. Long-grained milled rice being the last bastion of protectionism:
Don’t mess with Big Long-Grained Milled Rice.
This has intrigued me.
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4 Jun
I have done a very interesting chart.
Guess which countries' exports are most exposed to the EU's CBAM
1. Russie
2. UK (!!)
3. Turkey Image
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28 May
glwt.
A related story: When Raab banned UK officials from attending EU meetings in the run up to Brexit, Scottish officials kept going to some anyway.
On the UK presenting a united front thing, another related story: I remember witnessing a load of ERG MPs turn up in Warsaw in a last ditch attempt to convince the Polish government to veto any UK request to extend article 50.

The good ol’ days
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28 May
The day is finally with us: preference utilisation rates are in the news.
Or why a duty-and-quota-free free trade agreement does not automatically equal tariff-free trade.

(Rules of origin, obv.)
If you’re actually interested in preference utilisation rates - here’s something I wrote about them in 2016:

medium.com/@SamuelMarcLow…
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19 May
Gah - should have covered this in my newsletter.

Imports of food under an Australia-UK trade agreement wouldn’t qualify for tariff-free trade into Northern Ireland (until maybe EU also has an FTA) because the tariff differential between the EU and UK tariff will be > 3%.
And I’m not sure DIT economic analysis on regional impact takes this into account ...
See: Article 3(b)(ii)

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5 May
I think this too.
As in, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of IP rules, if you want to vaccinate the whole world as quickly as possible the fastest way to do it is surely to pay the pharma companies ££££££ to license their vaccines and technologies to everyone else.
But if you want to pay pharma less/ make them share technology they don’t want to share, the threat of a covid vaccine waiver could give you additional leverage.
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