Share this page!

Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
Twitter logo
21 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If you want a quick primer on the new Northern Ireland Command Paper I recorded this 8 minute overview.

As per @SamuelMarcLowe's guidance, I skipped past the somewhat mopey political stuff at the front and just tried to neutrally talk about the proposal.

Immediately after, I stuck around and answered some great questions from the viewers including of course, "How is the EU likely to feel about all this?"

The full video is here: twitch.tv/videos/1093509…
If you want a much deeper dive into this thing, I would recommend:

This (still growing) thread from customs expert Dr Jerzewska:

This somewhat scathing thread from my All the Goods Trade Puns Were Taken Co-Host and Substack author (I'm told he has some other affiliations as well but I don't care what they are) @SamuelMarcLowe:

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Dmitry Grozoubinski

Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DmitryOpines

Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
21 Jul
Every week it gets harder to achieve the zen state required to separate legitimate underlying trade issues in something like the Northern Ireland Protocol from the nonsense politicians say, and have said, about them every time political points could be scored.
The NIP isn't flawless, and there are genuine grounds for complaint and concern...

... but fuck me is it hard to hear that from the people who declared it to be the single greatest negotiating accomplishment in human history, delivered by Johnson in spite of expert naysayers.
Experts: "The border has to go somewhere, and there are trade offs in terms of friction if you want to leave the EU SM/CU and not have a border on the island."

May's Team: "Yup."

Johnson's Team Then: "Fuck you nerds, no there aren't."

Now: "Oh noes. Le frictions! But how?!"
Read 6 tweets
Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
19 Jul
1/ Explainer thread on what this is, and why it's a good thing to explore.

Many wealthier countries, including the EU and now the UK in its own right, allow a range of developing countries to sell them goods tariff free or tariff reduced, without a free trade agreement.
2/ The logic is simple.

By providing developing countries an advantage in your market over (some) wealthier competitors, you give them the chance to build up export industries that create jobs and upskill their human capital.

(Not uncontroversial but won't get into that here)
3/ EU programs on this are called:

- The GSP, reducing some tariffs for developing countries.
- The EBA (Everything But Arms) eliminating tariffs for LEAST developed countries
- The GSP+ Plus, reducing GSP tariffs to 0% conditioned on joining 27 int. conventions
Read 13 tweets
Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
28 Jun
This is really good news.
Very quick explanation:

Under GDPR if you want to handle the data of EU citizens you have to either:

- Have an adequacy decisions from the EU; or
- Do a huge amount of expensive legal disclaimer/terms of reference work to effectively replicate GDPR for every user
If the EU hadn't granted this, a huge number of UK businesses that so much as store e-mail addresses would have potentially had to spend a lot of money on expensive additional GDPR compliance, stop serving EU customers, or risk fines.

Now they won't!
Read 5 tweets
Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
17 Jun
1/ A few people have pointed out this paragraph in the UK's readout of the Australia-UK FTA Agreement in Principle and asked whether it means the UK will be accepting Australian standards after all👇

We obviously don't have the text, but my judgement is that's NOT what it means.
2/ Recognition of SPS measures is a pretty common thing to see in Free Trade Agreements.

Typically it's used when both sides have their own versions of laws that do the EXACT same thing.

So the agreement basically says, "Your law banning Y is as good as our law banning Y."
3/ Here's an example from CETA (Canada - EU FTA):

As you can see it lists specific EU regulations and matches them with specific Canadian laws, and then says that with some exceptions, they're considered equivalent.
Read 8 tweets
Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
16 Jun
This is my very rough attempt at illustrating how the sheep and lamb quota will work in the FTA based on the Australian government press release.

I've included the entire EU28 Quota as a starting comparison point. The post-Brexit UK "share" of that quota is a bit smaller.
This is beef. The EU28 Quota is a lot more complicated here.

Australia got 7,150 tonnes per annum of "High Quality Beef" and split a 6,625 tonne Grain-Fed quota with Argentina, Canada, Uraguay and New Zealand every quarter. I've (generously) included the total of all of that.
This is sugar.

EU28 Quota on the chart here is the Australia exclusive portion of the EU28 Quota, but there's also a much larger quota that the entire world (including Australia) gets to fight over.
Read 5 tweets
Dmitry Grozoubinski Profile picture
15 Jun
1/ If you're looking for a primer on the Australia-UK FTA agreed in principle today, our geeky trade show has got you covered.

(Full episode Youtube link at the end)

First, @Annaisaac explaining the agreement in 3:27:

twitch.tv/videos/1033995…
2/ Next, @SamuelMarcLowe tries to convince you that it's not a big deal and won't wipe out British farmers:

twitch.tv/videos/1033995…
3/ What about plant health, animal welfare and hormone beef?

We break it down for ten minutes:

If that seems like a lot to you, well... shit's complex, yo.

twitch.tv/videos/1033995…
Read 7 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @DmitryOpines has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @DmitryOpines!

Read all threads by @DmitryOpines

:(