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US Threatens UK With Trade Barriers If It Leaves The European Union
One of the most important decisions Brits have to make before the end of 2017 (most likely some time next year) is whether or not to remain in the European Union, and while recent polls have those willing to stay in as the majority, there has been a spike in support for leaving the bloc...
... which coupled with Europe's refugee crisis has made a Brexit an all too possible outcome.
Which probably explains why the U.S., confident it sill has veto power over democracies anywhere in the world, has just made it quite clear to UK's citizens which way they should vote.
According to the Guardian, the US trade representative, Michael Froman, in the first public comments from a senior US official on the matter, said that "the United States is not keen on pursuing a separate free trade deal with Britain if it leaves the European Union."
Just like in the case of Scotland's vote last year, trade is being used a key bargaining chip, or rather ultimatum: vote the way we want, or else. Guardian adds that Froman’s comments on Wednesday undermine a key economic argument deployed by proponents of exit, who say Britain would prosper on its own and be able to secure bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with trading partners.
The US is Britain’s biggest export market after the EU, buying more than $54bn (£35bn) in goods from the UK in 2014.
“I think it’s absolutely clear that Britain has a greater voice at the trade table being part of the EU, being part of a larger economic entity,” Froman told Reuters, adding that EU membership gives Britain more leverage in negotiations.
“We’re not particularly in the market for FTAs with individual countries. We’re building platforms … that other countries can join over time.”
Froman's take it or leave it condition is that if Britain left the EU, Froman said, it would face the same tariffs and trade barriers as other countries outside the US free trade network. “We have no FTA with the UK so they would be subject to the same tariffs – and other trade-related measures – as China, or Brazil or India,” he said.
Of course, the US could craft a deal in hours if not minutes if it so wanted, and David Cameron knows this. However, it is far easier for the U.S. oversee a world which is globalizing rather than fragmenting, because if the U.K. were to leave the Union, the line of countries willing to be next would stretch around the block.
Some more details on UK's trade statusin the EU:
The US is Britain’s second-largest export market for vehicles outside the EU.
If Britain is not part of the EU and therefore not part of TTIP, British cars exported to the US, such as those made by Jaguar Land Rover, would face a 2.5% tariff and could be at a disadvantage to German and Italian-made competitors.
British exports of fuel and chocolate could also be at a disadvantage if TTIP abolishes tariffs on those products.
Those are the benefits of the continued UK allegiance to Washington; however just ask any orginary Brit for the trade offs and you will be listening hours later, usually involving cheap labor migration from the continent.
But perhaps the most interesting consequence from this latest U.S. intervention in foreign affairs is how ordinary citizens will react when they realize just how aggressively the U.S. defends its strategic status quo interests. Which would then lead to a potentially fascinating pivot, one which would explain all the friendly relations between the U.K. and Beijing in recent months, including not only Xi Jinping's recent visit, but also why China picked London as the city where to issue its first sovereign debt in Renminbi.
Meanwhile, the biggest loser from this latest power push may be none other than the U.S. which may soon learn, the very hard way, that those whom it considered close strategic allies can just as quickly find other partners in a world where the US is no longer the only superpower on the block.
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Got to keep the pimphand strong and the whores working.
putin on the ritz
I can see that there are some heads in DC that are entirely too large for their position.
Here's to the EU dying and the commies having to get real jobs.
Fuck off Froman. What the UK decides is up to its own people.
Now I will for sure be voting to leave the EU in any referendum about it.
Exactly. That mother fucker can just fuck off.
The obama administration has a centralized plan for the perdition of the west that they don't want to see any smaller outlying systems trying to break free of. UK should vote Cruz. First act would be to bring the bust of Churchill back into then oval orifice.
Lucky for the UK they just signed a huge trade deal with China.
"Of course, the US could craft a deal in hours if not minutes if it so wanted, and David Cameron knows this. However, it is far easier for the U.S. oversee a world which is globalizing rather than fragmenting, because if the U.K. were to leave the Union, the line of countries willing to be next would stretch around the block."
Amen.
David "I didn't have sexual relations with that pig" Hameron and Barry Davis are clearly agents for the Global Elite and not NATIONALISTS. I think that legally qualifies them as traitors to their citizenry.
F’n hypocrites..
How about a 10% tariff on all financial transactions/transgressions committed by US banks in the City of London Corporation.. including the F'n Fed.
The US can find another trade partner, then. Relationships built on Coercian and Blackmail just aren't that sexy anymore.
Everyone is missing the point. Imposing trade tarrifs on the UK doesn't hurt the UK. It hurts the US. But if London were to be seen to be imposing tarrifs on the US the thin lie would fade from the eyes and everyone would see that it is London, not Washington, that runs the world.
No. Doing it this way, London gets what it wants but keeps up the pretense that Washington is in control.
TTIP
We had to pass it to find out what's in it.
The tied up stripper in my trunk might agree but look at her, she's in no position to be voting on the matter.
The irony with all these trade deals, is that we business people....never asked for and don't need any help from Washington to make international 'deals.' We can do that fine on our own. The only thing we really need is for Washington to STOP making deals and get out of the way.
Washington is a constraint to all business activity domestic and international. Their "deals" are designed to hand out constraint limitations to insiders...so just get out of the way.
The US have crossed a line, overstepped the mark. By saying this they disrespect Britain's sovereignty. Buuuuuh!
Australia did a Free Trade Agreement with the US in 2004, there has been no benefit at all. Britain could leave the EU and survive without an FTA with the US. FTAs with the US offer no benefit because in reality they have quotas, 'buy American' restrictions and usually find all sorts of ways to stifle anything that looks like Free Trade.
They even keep up a NON-TARRIFF TRADE BARRIER = Imperial Measurements. The US have outlived their usefulness when it comes to trade.
Where are the main chemical plants in the UK? Never mind, there are nuclear reactors...
"Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests."
Lord Palmerston
"MAZEL"
Sincerely,
The US
~As dictated, not read~
-Your Zionist Overlords <3
Barry O'Bammy just keeps sticking his size 13 in his mouth.
He and his team of thugs at the US Dept of State couldn't make it happen any faster if they WANTED it to happen
I really don't care what anyone else wants, or how much it might cost. So fuck off Froman - OUT NOW!
That will get the exact opposite effect of desired., and assure an 'out' vote.
rabid dog vs, bulldog,als poor rabid dog.
Just as well they reversed engineered those SLBM's up in Garelochead, they might come in handy..
Hope you are right. I see some total transgender has down voted both of us - he/she/it can fuck off too.
There was an old farmer joke about "where does a bear shit in the buckwheat ? Any where he wants." The problem with shitting on Camerons shoes, is that he isn't keen about getting out of the EU, but crapping on him might give him a little re-think on the topic.
Speaking of bears- I wonder if Cameron has Putin's number in case he needs a little help preventing "freedom bombing" of London.
Cameron should also be wondering whether the Russians have the 6 British SAS soldiers disguised as ISIS 'in order to target ISIS' (yeah right) on their list of terrorist supporters
Why would he care if the meatshields get offed?
This is the tragedy of the US. They do not understand people because they are so full of themselves. Just like I would now always do the opposite of what I see Murdoch suggests, so will the British now say 'well, if the Americans want me to do one thing, the opposite must be the right thing'.
Whatever, two words from London come to mind ... gold fix
You surely mean 'fix everything'.
Child Molesters
May Froman be vigorously Savilled...
Read my lips - "No body will ever be allowed to leave EU. More and more countries will be, infact, added. Politicians got nothing on elites. But the democratic charade must go on and hence the referendum 2 years later and not at the peak of migrant crisis."
watch as the former Soviet block countries jump ship as they discover that the new master is worse than the old master. This invasion is opening a lot of eyes.
London has already moved to align with china. The US is the friendless bully.
Hurry up and give China the reserve currency already then!!!
I need someone with a big brain in a small skull to explain to me how China is going to have a reserve currency when it is pegged to the USD>
Big brain, small skull here. China can unpeg its currency from the US dollar if an when it wants to. The Chinese make that decision, no one else. At the righ time, under the right circumstances. . .poof! Unpegged!
Just because you asked...
http://redefininggod.com/2015/10/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-78-t...
And netanyahoo was just in Moscow. No doubt investigating whether he could attach isreal to a new host now that the US is drying up and getting ready to blow away.
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Didn't they want to join the AIIB after leaving the IMF? or Did they just contribute 30 Billion?
What exactly is made in the UK any more besides bankers and their products? I don't think I've ever seen anything with "Made in the UK" or "Made in England" or "Made in Great Britain" on it since high school when I helped a friend with his hobby of fixing antique British sports cars. Maybe the Marmite in the imported foods section?
winston
For a country that invented the turbine, the jet engine, the list is endless, it sure has succumbed to the goldsmiths in London. Aside from financial conjuring and trickery all Britain has to sell is its past.
I prefer Perkins diesel engines, not the licensed copies from China, the UK built ones.
The way things are going, we're next. The financial sector here has grown from 15% of national profits to 40%. We're transitioning from making stuff to shuffling money and taking a cut, just as the UK did.
The UK excels at financial corruption and supporting terrorists like ISS. They did a sweetheart deal with the Saudis - get the Saudis on the UN Human Rights Committee (just in time for the unfortunate hospital bombing) in exchange for a big weapons contract. Respectable!
Spotted Dick.
If you like your spotted dick, you can keep you spotted dick.
USA Peeps
are dropping left,and right
Why are they mostly Jews who interfere with other countries?
Because jews suffer from Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder
Meaning they suffer from acute paranoid Veja Du, they experience stress of events that have not occurred yet.
The cure is dancing on the roof of a van watching tall buldings turn to dust..
The UK is the US mole inside the EU, its a vital part of the Zionist-Anglo-American Empire domination of Continental Europe, their worst nightmare would be a French-German-Russian aligment excluding Judeo-Anglo-America.
The DUMB BRITS think they've got a "Special Relationship" with the USSA..
It's "special" all right - just as long as they do what the fcuk they're told ;)
Sounds like we need to resurrect the time honored traditions of tar and feathers and run out of town on a rail. But isn't it nice to see them all come out of the closet together as the good old boys club that they are? All you have to do is threaten to stop obeying and go your own way, and here come the big guns.
The US "Government" is a joke.
Another Obama administration temper tantrum.......
say hi to your american friends, bitches
So much for that "special relationship."
Can anyone help me update my scorecard? Is this the "action," "reaction," or "solution?"
There was never a 'special' relationship.
It's all a distraction. The UK is not leaving the EU. Just a little sumtin sumtin for the slaves to ponder when they're not working their 3 jobs.
Not until it's painfully obvious that the EU is going to totally collapse.
that statement is true or false depending from the definition of "the EU"
Special Relationship, take this!
Much like Bill Cosby, the US has special relationships with many countries.
Ya you leave the EU and were not exporting anymore inflation to you guys... Comical
no one will escape from euro PRISON
Every incentive now for the UK to leave the EU. The numb nuts in Washington shot themselves in the foot - again.
We should have Nuland send them a barnyard language message!
1 Trident colbalt enhanced warhead for DC and 1 for Manhattan then?
America is really working hard to be standing alone against the world.
The UK is a serious financial powerhouse, bigger then the US. So to threaten it... no smart... at all.
WEll, he's not.
I'm sure Cameron is quite comfortable with this thread since he is slavishly pro- EU.
It's easier to default against enemies than friends. It might be all political theatre to set up the masses to swallow this eventual outcome.
Anyone who wants to remain part of the EU (or USSA, or NATO) is terminally insane.
What are you offering? China? The country where every sane millionaire is prepared to launder their fortunes at 20% to get out?
Couldn't help but notice world emigration is overloaded for those trying to get into western countries and europe.
China's immigration cue? About a line as long at a McDonals drive through.
Yup, lots of people end up fighting the last war, or chasing out of date fads (including the USSA). And they definitely still are.
No, I wouldn't move to China. In fact, I was born Chinese and moved away after school. And I'm glad I did. But after living happily in Maui for years, I escaped the increasingly fascist USSA and moved to the extreme boonies in the southern hemisphere.
Most people aren't very alert, observant, thoughtful or diligent. Which is why so many are trying to move to an insanely corrupt evil empire.
These threats will not stand through the election and they certainly do not reflect the views of liberty-loving Farage fans on this side of the pond.
One who say "yeah do whatever you want UK" are idiots.
It is unity that has prevented full scale invasions and take overs of other countries. Read your fucking history.
The only thing that's made the last 70 years any different is force by unity - not a ridiculous notion of do what you want to do.
If Uk wants to be a whore to China and Russia knock yourself out and you'll find out which pimp was better when it's too fucking late.
You got a pimp. Always have. Wake up
Since the EU writes our laws you're going to have to define 'full scale invasion'.
I thought trident took care of that!
The "peace" has been anything but. The violence has only been externalized/hidden. Fact: UK is broke; it's land mass is small-ish; it has limited natural resources (energy, oops!). It is inevitible that the UK looks to directly (not as a tag-along to US plunderings) pillage from others in order to survive.
I figure that it might be a very strong possibility that the UK bails from any consortium that might threaten its ability to obtain energy: the "smart money" seems to be cozying up to Russia these days.
and I hope that Russians tell the UK for go fuck a goat. UK has been covertly fucking with Russia for a 100 years. Longer than that when you consider overt actions.
Why the fuck was the UK ever at war with Russia???
Are they even remotely close to each other on the map?
No, they are not. UK is a fucking aggressive parasite.
It has been for a very long time
Oh, and fuck the queen with a dead horses dick.. inbred old cunt.
No TTIP?? Where can I vote?
So Brits leave the EU, control borders, take backfisheries policy and get out of TTIP. (That they have protested against)!
And don't have to deal with EU- US bizarre obsession with Russia.
Drawbacks? Tariffs on chocolate...
?????
The DBs (Dumb Brits) better cut the crap, stfu & start following orders.
Otherwise the PentaGoon might get to thinkin' that Londonistan is a trrrrr'ist hotbed - that's needs some "special" attention.-
Could this be about the UK signing onto the AIIB with China & Co.?? Me thinks ya...
I'm starting to think the US admin. actually can't even see the effects of their arrogance. US is driving away every friend they ever had, and that ain't many.
As I noted above, it's easier to default against your enemies. This might all be an accepted agreement that this is going to be the theatre that's played out. The eventuality of things won't differ at all.
"The play's the thing"
You're probably right. The Rotschild family honors no country, but they 'are' in England. So I'm sure you're right, something going on behind the scenes.
For the millionth time, what part of change you can believe in don't you understand?
This will do something to make some of the hard left pay attention (activists)
Whom like the EU because they see it as upholding workers rights but hate the US military agenda and TTIP (Yes, love the EU hate TTIP I know!), like Josef Mengele.
These people think that the EU is left and the government is right and were the last bastion of pro EU brainwashing available to Brussels corp.
Manipulators are losing their touch!
With the Rehypothecation issue, I would be inclined to say that the US is pushing for it.
A classic case of US hubrism. This statemet should add another 5% to the 'out' vote. People now hate everything that comes out of America and therfore if the US government says it will be bad for the UK then it must be good. Fuck you America.
GFY
Paul Eberhart usually trades the three fish for an emerald with the villagers in minecraft. www.pauleberhart.com
Trade barriers against the UK? And what pray tell do they export?
Besides arrogance, pedophilia, greed, corruption and colonialism that is.....
Soon England will turn her back on US.
Won't happen because the same level of corruption exists at the highest levels and they are all friends. Germany was going to flip, but then they were barraged with refuges and more GI-Joes.
What is good for Greece (from Germany) is as well good for UK (from US). Vaseline?
I don't think it will be the UK voting in/out of the EU. I think it will just be England voting on it...maybe Wales along with it.
The EU and Scottish independence referenda may be simultaneous.
If I give in and accept ZH offer to receive shit by email do the incessant pop up windows stop popping up?
I have a blister on my thumb.
Use Firefox and install the ad-on called "Ad-Block Plus" and the problem is solved.
Chrome is Google is NSA.
What does Britain need with the US? They'll just move towards China as an extension of their new Yuan Bond Hub.
All the more reason to vote out! Fuck you Froman! fuckin Joo cunt
The pot calling the kettle black and the kettle calling the pot black; both are alike an abomination to the world.
Cameron was at the Northern Future Forum in Iceland and mentioned the upcoming EU referendum briefly in a interview.
http://www.visir.is/cameron-vill-horfa-til-framtidar-med-islendingum/art...
http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/10/27/northern-future-forum-starts-to...
http://nff2015.is/
Bullshit on this one, the source is the British Guardian newspaper, the UK leaving the EU would suit America more as then the UK would be free of EU interference, fact is the British are too Chicken to cut loose, they like the Scots are all talk when it comes to independence.
USA foreign policy and methods is gradually eroding the alliances it has. Their extreme arrogance in everything they do ensure they can never engage with others without offending and eroding.
Europe drowning in Middle Eastern refugees because of US corrupt war for Saudi Arabia and Israel against Syria may be the last straw, as this one wakes up the people on the streets who it seems have had enough.
Oblaba threatening anyone has to be the biggest joke in every other country across the globe!
As Hillary Clinton would say: FJB!
A poll by ipsos mori.... do we really believe such crap anyway lol
Fuck the zionists & send them to hell should be vote, then the world would be free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7uD5uXmH8&list=PLCTreoVu5wbOI_qxUazNU6I4fZKgsRCxF&index=4
(ooh yeah baby)
The US governing bodies will never learn...
The European Union is a disaster, totally unsustainable as a monetary union and becoming a gargantuan monster impossible to govern.
It is just a matter of time before it collapses under its own doing. So... instead of just letting it be... what do we do? Embrace another lost cause!!!
Totally hopeless...
:-D
Why do we let these assholes into positions of power anyhow? They certainly aren't looking out for the good of the people of this country (USA) or any other.
CabalA$$LickerLiarObama's wartedDick now threatens to screw its own poodle UK
becuz USA has colonized europe with the help of NATO
But eventually all poodles will leave when Evil USA stands fully exposed & naked withWartedDick in hand
American import duties would be no (or a small) problem for Britain if they create a clearing system for export and import duties. Any company that exports to the US could have its export duties for the American market cleared by means of some kind of tax refund. Import duties would cover the costs for this tax refund system.
For a country that generally export things in small quantities for each shipment the extra paperwork caused by the clearing system would might be an extra cost that would impair the efficiency of the economy. Finland, which primarily exports wood and pulp, would probably be affected very little from an economic efficiency point of view while France, which exports wine and cosmetics, would be more affected.