Originally posted by KentPhilip
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However, if you join a trade agreement where you have no influence on the regulations and simply take the view of 'well we'll forget about that trade' where you don't comply, then you actually have less self determination AND less money. In the EEA, the moment you choose to not implement an EU trade regulation over which you've given up influence, you lose the right, in your example, to sell beef to Austria, but that could just as well be to sell cars all over Europe, sell aerospace engines to France, financial services to Germany and Holland, software to every car manufacturer in the EU, diggers to pretty much everyone and many other wonderful things that Britain exports. So you see, outside the EU and inside the EEA or EFTA, Britain will have less self determination as well as less means to influence some of those countries in Europe that have always been and might otherwise always be a bit loony.
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