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<blockquote data-quote="stewart" data-source="post: 2086632" data-attributes="member: 42710"><p>The total population of the EU is around 500m, with the UK being about 12.5% of that population. With those numbers and having free access to 450m customers on your doorstep I wouldn't be too smug about Europe exporting more to you than you do to them, particularly when many of those exports are by UK based, overseas owned companies. The UK should have enough manufacturing capacity to see those figures reversed, exporting more than they import.</p><p></p><p>As for their position being weak and the EU needing the UK more than the UK needs Europe, it is the reverse, to redress the trade balance you need to increase sales to the other nations in the EU, you need that trade.</p><p></p><p>You could of course, as has been suggested, set up trade deals outside the EU. The TPP took 7 years of negotiations and should be signed off this week, if the UK were to tag onto that one after the deal is signed it would not be from a position of strength.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stewart, post: 2086632, member: 42710"] The total population of the EU is around 500m, with the UK being about 12.5% of that population. With those numbers and having free access to 450m customers on your doorstep I wouldn't be too smug about Europe exporting more to you than you do to them, particularly when many of those exports are by UK based, overseas owned companies. The UK should have enough manufacturing capacity to see those figures reversed, exporting more than they import. As for their position being weak and the EU needing the UK more than the UK needs Europe, it is the reverse, to redress the trade balance you need to increase sales to the other nations in the EU, you need that trade. You could of course, as has been suggested, set up trade deals outside the EU. The TPP took 7 years of negotiations and should be signed off this week, if the UK were to tag onto that one after the deal is signed it would not be from a position of strength. [/QUOTE]
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