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Oddly enough.......Thailand, I'm struggling with, but maybe somebody had seen one in Iceland?
One can only hope that such as @Fonzie-NL are sticking up for us over there, and reassuring everyone that we're not all completely mental.
Withnail, this is getting more problematic by the minute.....
and we thought we had strange politicians.....
Might you, I think leaving is not the smartest thing to do.
But then my work is in industry and export.
For us Brexit has a silver lining. More firms coming to our country,
And it has never been so cheap to buy in Britain
We've become a Banana Dictatorship. Except we'll have no bananas.
Withnail, this is getting more problematic by the minute.....
and we thought we had strange politicians.....
Might you, I think leaving is not the smartest thing to do.
But then my work is in industry and export.
For us Brexit has a silver lining. More firms coming to our country,
And it has never been so cheap to buy in Britain
We've become a Banana Dictatorship. Except we'll have no bananas.
Tek-monkey, its not only tariffs that will make it more difficult.
A lot of products (technical and non technical) are nowadays built according common agreed standard EU-norms and rules,
Which means you are be able to sell them anywhere in Europe without having to make changes to the product.
After leaving, this advantage is largely lost.
Or you keep continue building equipment according EU-rules and regulations.
It won't make a jot of difference if we build things to EU standards we won't be able to put a CE stamp or equivalent on it.
A good example is my trade where I we can currently act as Notified Body for assessing a number of rail interoperable subsystems. Post Brexit we can only act as a UK Notified Body (whatever that will be called).
The products we certify won't be certified for use in Europe but strangely any EU Notified Body certified product is automatically certified for UK use. How does that work?
Tek-monkey, its not only tariffs that will make it more difficult.
A lot of products (technical and non technical) are nowadays built according common agreed standard EU-norms and rules,
Which means you are be able to sell them anywhere in Europe without having to make changes to the product.
After leaving, this advantage is largely lost.
Or you keep continue building equipment according EU-rules and regulations. But that wont make the Brexiteers very happy......
Another option is making two different products, one for UK and one for EU market.
This will only raise the production cost.
While the UK was in the EU they had at least some say in how these EU-norms were formulated.
After leaving even this is out of your hands.....
Trying to make a trade agreement with the US will also not be easy.
It will probably be like loosing the EU “ball and chain”....... and exchanging it for a Trump “ball and chain”
I think a lot of that will still have to be renegotiated again after Brexit.