Comments by "Neodym" (@neodym5809) on "Australia and New Zealand's Trade Negotiations With The European Union Explained - TLDR News" video.

@mark63424able Most favored nation rules are an obstacle, with Canada already having a FTA with the EU and Australia and NZ negotiating one, they can not give the UK better terms than the EU. Furthermore, CANZUK was advertised as a replacement market for the EU, but the combined GDPs of Canada, Australia and NZ is smaller than Germany`s...
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Tada_WAV how can the EU be a sealed of trade bubble when it is the entity with the most FTAs? Also, Brexit is resulting in more complicated bureaucracy and every trade deal includes international courts like WTO. The newly required UK custom officers are more than the EU employs in total.
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Name one country that does not protect their industry. Furthermore, name one trading block that has more FTAs than the EU.
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Almost every farmer in the EU is supported by CAP, as farmers in the US are supported by the US government. Being able to feed yourself is a extremely important, therefor the EU makes sure its agriculture sector is live and well. Furthermore, next to pure economic terms, other areas are important. While the giant factory like farms in the US may be more efficient, they are an environmental disaster, do not contribute much to their local community and do not protect traditions. Small French farmers on the other hand may be more expensive in production, but have higher quality and a much smaller impact on the environment. The final product speaks for itself, everyone who ever went to France can only envy their food (with exception to the Italians, I would say).
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ANTON RUDENHAM all the Cards is an empty phrase, already proven wrong. Or why else did Johnson agree to give Northern Ireland to the EU, as well as 5 billion extra? And since Brexit, the biggest economy the EU did a FTA with was Japan, while Switzerland for the UK. This speaks for itself.
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Norway accepts the ECJ, pays into the EU budget and copies EU laws and regulations into its own. The EU offered this to the UK, they refused.
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@duhni4551 Not quiet. While products for the EU market have to follow EU regulations, the country where they are produced may not (USA, China...). Norway on the other hand copies EU law into its own on a regular basis due to being a member of EEA. The consequence of refusing to do so would mean loss of EU market access. Norways Prime minister ones describe this as a fax democracy, where the EU faxes laws to Norway to implement.
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@rag2031 The Swiss contributions to the EU budget have nothing to do with Free movement.
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@Th3_Gael CETA contains most favored nation rules, too, independent of WTO rules. Furthermore, every FTA is done under the WTO framework. I advice you to take your advice seriously, maybe start with this: https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/publications/most-favoured-nation-clauses-in-eu-trade-agreements-one-more-hurdle-for-uk-negotiators/
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@antonrudenham3259 My bad, it were 7bn: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-gives-up-7bn-windfall-from-european-investment-bank-tq0qskgfc There will be a custom border in the Irish sea, and Northern Ireland will follow EU regulations, not UK regulations. And regulations are far more important than customs (which is also ironic, as it will be less paperwork to trade from ROI to NI than from NI to rUK). A worthwhile FTA? Japan, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Mercusor, Vietnam, more than one. And good luck to the UK to have more FTAs than the EU, because they cover most of the globe already: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/eu-trade-map/ What cards does the UK hold? Why would it be, as a smaller entity, be a more interesting trading partner than the EU? As the UK is a service economy, that can not sell its services under WTO or FTA terms.
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@strofikornego9408 Tell that to the US senate, which are pro Ireland and told the UK to honor the GFA, or they would block any US UK trade talks.
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Which one of the three? ^^
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@duhni4551 Ok, let me rephrase this: if Norway would not implement EU regulations, a non tariff barrier would be implemented, which would increase costs of exports significantly. Furthermore, Norway has access to the EU service market no FTA provides.
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