Global trade deals will be bigger outside than in the EU, says David Davis | Politics | The Guardian
So the Canadian model it is!
And we can see how it could work for us:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...del-next-steps
I think we can be quietly confident of success.
Davis also appears to be opposed to settling for a halfway house as an interim measure in which Britain joins the EEA in the same way as Norway so allowing access to the single market but on condition it retains free movement of labour and capital.
Davis wrote: “The idea that we have to fit our future into some Procrustean bed created for far smaller countries is nonsense.”
But he does state it might be negotiable saying “it does not work for the UK as it stands”. He added: “To make it viable it would need an arbitration court (not the European court of justice), a dispute resolution procedure, and a number of other institutional changes. It would be possible to design and even negotiate such a structure, but it would take much more than two years.”
EU tells Swiss no single market access if no free movement of citizens
Read more
Instead Davis argues the Swiss option – European Free Trade Association membership plus a host of bilateral treaties – is the best starting place. But he also acknowledges that in Switzerland problems have developed due to the EU insistence on Switzerland accepting free movement.
He says instead the best model is the Canadian Ceta deal that the EU has just struck. “It eliminates all customs duties, which the EU website excitedly describes as worth €470m (£395m) a year to EU business. A similar deal with Britain would save it five times that on cars alone. This would be a perfectly good starting point for our discussions with the commission.”
Davis wrote: “The idea that we have to fit our future into some Procrustean bed created for far smaller countries is nonsense.”
But he does state it might be negotiable saying “it does not work for the UK as it stands”. He added: “To make it viable it would need an arbitration court (not the European court of justice), a dispute resolution procedure, and a number of other institutional changes. It would be possible to design and even negotiate such a structure, but it would take much more than two years.”
EU tells Swiss no single market access if no free movement of citizens
Read more
Instead Davis argues the Swiss option – European Free Trade Association membership plus a host of bilateral treaties – is the best starting place. But he also acknowledges that in Switzerland problems have developed due to the EU insistence on Switzerland accepting free movement.
He says instead the best model is the Canadian Ceta deal that the EU has just struck. “It eliminates all customs duties, which the EU website excitedly describes as worth €470m (£395m) a year to EU business. A similar deal with Britain would save it five times that on cars alone. This would be a perfectly good starting point for our discussions with the commission.”
And we can see how it could work for us:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...del-next-steps
The agreement – which has yet to be ratified – promises that around 98.6% of goods traded between Canada and the EU will be free of duty, paves the way for access to public procurement between the two markets and empowers regulatory bodies to accept the standards and tests carried out in each other’s jurisdictions.
puffins.
Comment