EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
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#2I'm glad the UK is a member of the EU so we can benefit from this.
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#3"The service market will be opened, including financial services"
This is going to make the UK mad. But apart from that, wasn't there the position that services cannot be part of a trade deal?
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#4I'm glad the UK is a member of the EU so we can benefit from this.
So then it IS apparently possible to have a free trade zone without freedom of movement.
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#5Finally a piece of good news in global politics
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#6I'm glad the UK is a member of the EU so we can benefit from this.
So then it IS apparently possible to have a free trade zone without freedom of movement.
Of course it is. The EU isn’t that, though.
The withdrawal agreement negotiated by May does fulfill those criteria, but Brexiters still don’t like it — fancy that.
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#7I'm glad the UK is a member of the EU so we can benefit from this.
Perhaps you should instead be wondering how much earlier you could have benefitted from this if the UK wasn't tied to a bureaucratic, lethargic customs union that restricts free trade.
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#8I'm glad the UK is a member of the EU so we can benefit from this.
So then it IS apparently possible to have a free trade zone without freedom of movement.
Yes ofc it is possible. the freedom of movement is just a way to dump bluecollar workforce into richer economies so that wages don't go up. educated workforce most of the time has legal ways to get a visa and has freedom of movement regardless of europe "freedom of movement"
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#9Are there any downsides to this that were perhaps left out of the article?
Re: EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
#10Are there any downsides to this that were perhaps left out of the article?
Well, if you are not a member state of the EU or Japan it will be harder to sell your products, if EU or Japan can import them cheaper from their partners. But next to that: Probably not.