Liam Fox Porkies

[darmstadt]

So all this talk about the UK not being able to strike it's own trade deals is a bit of a red herring, or rather someone is telling porky pies:

https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Ar...deal-worth-50m

From Liam Fox's Twitter feed:

BREAKING NEWS: following ongoing UK government effort, Taiwan is preparing to open its market to British pork for the first time. The agreement is expected to be worth more than £50m to 🇬🇧 farmers over the next 5 years

Sadly it's possibly all a little bit silly really as that's only GBP10m a year, the talks took 2 years and the EU was in fact involved. The only reason that this is now allowed is because China now allows British pork imports as previously they were banned due to health reasons...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/li...151659865.html

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/taiwa...2018-mar-19_en

[AtW]

£10 mln in sales or in profit?

[Mordac]

So all this talk about the UK not being able to strike it's own trade deals is a bit of a red herring, or rather someone is telling porky pies:

https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Ar...deal-worth-50m

From Liam Fox's Twitter feed:



Sadly it's possibly all a little bit silly really as that's only GBP10m a year, the talks took 2 years and the EU was in fact involved. The only reason that this is now allowed is because China now allows British pork imports as previously they were banned due to health reasons...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/li...151659865.html

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/taiwa...2018-mar-19_en

Best not to confuse China with Taiwan, unless you want to offend both of them...

[sasguru]

Sadly it's possibly all a little bit silly really as that's only GBP10m a year

It all helps to fill the gap of 100 billion a year that a hard Brexit will cost.

[WTFH]

£10 mln in sales or in profit?

Turnover.

[Eirikur]

It all helps to fill the gap of 100 billion a year that a hard Brexit will cost.

All we need to do is to up the pig export by a factor of 10,000