Looks like Micron has a big problem on his hands, which means Barnier, Juncker and Merkel also have too, what do you reckon John ?
Brexit - The Real Facts
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Amid reports that many European countries are concerned that France is behind the EU’s and Michel Barnier’s arrogant, disruptive negotiating hardline, the good news is Theresa May is sending her Ministers (even Hammond) off to many European countries on a “charm offensive” to remind them just how important tariff free trade with Britain really is to most EU countries.
Macron also needs to be reminded that France, like many other EU countries, has an awful lot to lose, especially their influential farming community, from the EU putting its political ideology ahead of the interests of EU countries, their people, industries and workers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/philip-hammond-embarks-brexit…/
French farmers, who are the most militant and politically well organised in Europe, will be very, very hard hit if the EU shuts them out of their huge, very lucrative British market by the EU forcing them to be uncompetitive by imposing high protectionist EU tariffs on French and other countries exports to the UK.
When the French realise that without a free trade deal with Britain, the EU will impose external protectionist tariffs of up to 30% on their food and wine exports to their huge and vitally important British market, all hell will break loose.
They will organise sustained mass protests at a drop of a hat, just as they have done so many times in the past when they realise just how badly hit they will be, rioting, dumping food and blocking motorways not just right across France and Paris and other French cities, but in Brussels too.
And they will be joined by farmers, wine and food producers and processors right across many parts of Europe, including Spain, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Denmark, Germany.
You only have to look at our supermarkets and see just how much their shelves are piled high with EU wine, cheese, butter, meat, bacon, fruit, vegetables and even flowers.
British consumers will benefit from LOWER prices because almost all EU produced food and beverage products can be SUBSTITUTED with similar, much cheaper high quality products available from outside the EU.
British farmers will also benefit by being paid again in a similar system that we had before joining the Common Market, to produce as much food as they can, instead of being paid by British tax payers via the EU to NOT to produce food, so that British consumers had to pay higher prices under the EU protectionist system.
You only have to visit a supermarket in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand To see the huge variety of very high quality products, often at much cheaper prices than inside the EU high tariff protectionist Single Market.
That recent Civil Service Fake News report makes the idiotic claim that leaving the EU will result in higher prices for UK consumers.
As Jacob Rees-Mogg explained they are “fiddling” their doomy forecasts by making the ridiculous FALSE ASSUMPTION that after Leave we will still keep the high EU external tariffs of around 10% on cars, lorries, machinery and up to 30% on food, beverages, clothing and footwear.
This assumption is utter Remainiac Nonsense - GARBAGE IN-GARBAGE OUT
Leaders of the Leave campaign repeatedly explained that one of the main benefits of Brexit was that we could immediately eliminate most of these high external EU protectionist tariffs which KEEP OUR PRICES ARTIFICIALLY HIGH on our food, beverage, clothing, footwear, as well as cars, lorries and machinery etc.
Furthermore we did NOT need any trade agreements to reduce import tariffs, as Remainiacs falsely claim.
We are legally entitled under WTO rules to UNILATERALLY abolish all EU imposed tariffs immediately Leave on all imports from every country outside the EU.
We can announce that we are doing that for a LIMITED PERIOD telling these non-EU countries that we are open for business to make those tariff cuts permanent if they sign free trade agreements us.
Most countries will jump at the opportunity, which will benefit British consumers and industries with much lower import prices and open new doors for our exports, which have already rocketed by 16% since the Referendum
The US, ChIna and Japan, the three largest economies in the world (more than twice the size of the EU 27) have already made clear they are keen to do that.
The Chinese even describe Brexit as an opportunity for a new “Golden Era” (their phrase) for Sino-British relations. Like the Americans and Japanese before them, they want to make Britain their base to cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Britain offers many advantages to Chinese and other foreign companies, which far outweigh the advantages of the EU.
In addition to English being the international language of business and commercial law, as well as of science, technology and life sciences and creative arts, in which we are world leaders (with more top world renowned Universities than the rest of Europe combined) Britain is open to free trade snd the leading globsl financial centre as well as very welcoming to foreign companies, offering a level playing field for foreign companies - unlike most countries in the EU.
The opportunities for trade with super fast growing China are huge, which alone could rapidly grow to be a bigger market for Britain than the EU.
Liam Fox recently announced that our exports to China have grown by an astonishing 25% since the Referendum and could easily continue at that rate when we get rid of the EU tariffs holding us back.
These are the type of opportunities opening up for us with Brexit.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and most of the rest of the other 53 Commonwealth countries with a total population of 2.2 billion (more than 4 times that of the EU) with which we have especially close ties, have also publicly said they are also very keen to do trade deals with us.
Most of the rest of the countries in world will also jump at the opportunity to do free trade deals with the huge British import market, the fifth largest in the world.
will be very hard hit indeed by being priced out of the UK market without a free trade agreement with Britain, by EU imposing protectionist tariffs of up to 30 % on French food and beverage products like wine, cheese and 10% on French cars.