The new year begins with "late evening" curfew in many EU countries, such as Italy, France and Germany. The new lockdown measures have come to replace the ideal of the smart city with that of the spectral city, while the US is surpassing 20 million COVID-19 cases, which is almost one fourth of global infections. It's easy to understand the main reason why 25% of global infected people (and 25% of global Covid-19 deaths) are in the US. While many Westerners continue to blame China, these figures show us where the epidemic really began to spread in early 2019.
Meanwhile, the UK leaves the EU Single Market and Customs Union. Actually, even with the new agreement between the UK and EU, since January 2021 businesses will face new barriers to trade in goods and services, and to cross-border mobility and exchanges. The UK, that relies on the EU for roughly half of its total trade in goods, will no longer benefit from the principle of free movement of goods and services. In addition, all the imports in the EU must meet all EU standards and will be subject to regulatory checks and control for safety, health and other public policy purposes.The EU is the UK's biggest trading partner, as around 65 % of British agricultural exports go to the EU Member States, and 70 % of UK imports originate from the EU countries. In addition, last year Italian cheese exports grew just as fear of no-deal Brexit, as with about 7,000 tons, the UK is one of the leading markets. We will see what UK's businesses and policy makers will be able to do, considering that a non-member of the EU does not enjoy the same benefits as what EU membership offers.
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ReplyDelete...this entire Brexit mess is hard to understand from where I'm sitting. It seems racist driven.
ReplyDeleteTrue, as most people in the UK disagree on the cross-border mobility. Actually, they say in the UK there are a lot of workers who come from Poland, Romania, etc.
DeleteI find this Brexit thing hard to understand too. It doesn't sound good though.
DeleteHappy Monday, Girgio!
Actually, many people in Scotland, which is part of the UK, want their country to recede from the rest of the UK and then rejoin the EU.
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The New Year begins with conditions of concern for all countries in the presence of a pandemic.
ReplyDeleteIt's surprising to hear that the US has surpassed 20 million COVID-19 cases.
Does UK leaving the EU have a big impact on British trade? perhaps because the UK is heavily dependent on export and import trade with various EU member countries.
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With regards to the impact on British trade, three out of four Scotland's international trading markets are in the EU (Germany, France, Netherlands, etc.). On June 23, 2016, Scotland voted "Remain" by 62% to 38%, while 55.8 in Northern Ireland voted to stay in the E.U. and 44.2 % "Leave". People who live in those peripheral countries of the UK disagree with the exit from the customs union and EU single market, as traders fear Brexit will see Scotland and Northern Ireland delay access to Europe.
DeleteWith food and drink exports reaching £ 5 billion, Scotland's products are in demand in the world over. As a matter of fact, Scotland is the third largest producer of farmed salmon in the world. Scotch whisky accounts for almost 80% of Scotland's food and beverages export market, not to mention Scottish sales of oil, gas and refined products to the rest of the world.
At the moment, Scottish seafood exporters had been already hit by the problems and confusion following new border rules introduced on January 1st. British exporters don't know when they expect to be fully back to normality, as a big delay in obtaining the right health certificates for shipping their fresh goods into Europe.
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So Scotland and Ireland are no longer EU members. So far I think that Scotland is a separate country from UK and so is Ireland.
DeleteI just found out that Scotland is very rich in natural resources. and is the third largest salmon producer in the world. And Scotland also exports food and drink to almost all of Europe.
It is not surprising that now they feel confused and pessimistic about the restrictions on exports per January 1 to Europe for countries that are not EU members.
Hopefully there will be a solution soon so that it doesn't have a loss for Scottish exporters.
Thank you very much for your explanation of this topic Mr. Giorgio.
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Yes, Scotland isn't a separate state, as the UK is a federal. On the contrary, Ireland is a separate state, and it is still a member of the EU. But I was talking about Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
DeleteIt's my pleasure to give you such explaination.
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