The Australian trade deal

[medsec222]

We will weather a few storms over the next few years without a doubt. But looking at the overall picture, am I glad to see the backsides of the bureaucrats in Brussels retreating into the distance? Well, that would be a Yes. The only fly in the ointment as far as I am concerned is that they are taking for too long to do it.

[Workingman]

First pot holes and now storms.

They must have been on the sides of a bus that broke down in the garage. They certainly were not in the prospectuses of the Leave campaigns.

The EU bureaucrats will long be in your rear view mirror because we need to trade. And because we now have third country status, of our own doing, we have to trade on their third country status rules. Well we do unless we do some sort of deal or deals.

Brexiters knew that, it's what they voted for.

[Suff]

We don't need to trade on their terms. I just bought a Lightning deal Shark cordless. Half price in the Amazon lightning deal. Just for interest I selected to deliver to France instead of my daughters. £78 taxes and charges to get it delivered.

Nobody is going to buy goods from the UK at these rates and the UK will simply sell elsewhere. The fact that these goods probably came from China in the first place, without taxes and without any re-boxing, just makes the ridicule much greater.

In many ways this is a good thing. Because it removes the uncertainty. Simply trade elsewhere, don't keep on trying, just move.

In this case, half price means we'll just pick it up on the way home one time (when this covidness finally ends and were travelling) and bring it home.

[Workingman]

When I said "We" I meant us as in the country, not some random individuals buying stuff 'back home' then picking it up on a return visit. The Poles and Romainians have been doing that for ages, and I did it when in the the RAF Germany in the old EEC.

I wouldn't exactly call it international trade between nations.

[Suff]

I'm talking about the fact that this becomes the only way to do it and whilst business level trade is the largest, individual trade is by no means insignificant. Especially where websites hide the source of the goods.

Trade is no longer easy. So trade will go where it is easier. Who that hurts? We shall see.