- Location
- Cheltenham
I don’t see our standards dropping for UK produced goods. What I can see is the EU trying to make compliance checks difficult but then that can work both ways! All this talk about regulation and checking of goods is a whitewash dreamt up by bureaucrats just for the sake of it. Actually while many criticise the US of protectionism, the EU have done a pretty good job of it too. How long did it take to do a trade deal with Canada?This way to simplistic. It's not just a case of producing a product or supplying a service that complies to the recipient countries rules and regs. It goes much further back to government policy. A company supplying a product would have to conform to mutually agreed items like environmental standards, labour laws, state aid rules to start with ( within the trade deal). If the country then diverged from these, the products could be blocked or tariffs imposed. When the item gets to the border, it has to be shown that it meets all the importing countries rules & regs which may require research and tests to be done within the importing country. In the US, in the event of no federal law, this can be a state by state effort. Currently most counties the world follow either the US or the EU when it comes to alignment, so it would be pretty odd for the UK to try and set it's own agenda.