• plyth@feddit.org
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    “Overall, U.K. goods will get somewhat better [treatment] than European Union products,” explained Ed Gresser, director for trade and global markets at the Progressive Policy Institute and a former policy adviser to the United States Trade Representative. “This also appears to be the case for the very top U.K. exports to the U.S. cars, medicines, oil — which bring in the most money, and for wines and liquors.”

    So overall a worse deal for the EU.

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      21 hours ago

      Given that the EU is economically much larger than the UK, it really boggles the mind just how big a capitulation the ‘deal’ that von der leyen so expertly crafted actually is.