EU will export goods (to the USA) via Northern Ireland for lower tariffs, says economist

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EU will export goods (to the USA) via Northern Ireland for lower tariffs, says economist

Apologies for editorialising the headline with brackets. The original headline was quite bad for context, lol

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HM King Charles III DG FD

feddit.uk

Northern Ireland currently has access to most of the the wider UK market and EU market customs free, and now a 10% tariff rate for exporting to the USA. Seems like our wee country might start to do very well!

Chris reply

feddit.uk

Careful, if you make it sound too attractive trump might want to buy it.

HM King Charles III DG FD reply

feddit.uk

Just keep convincing the Americans that we're still blowing each other up and we'll be fine

Z3k3

lemmy.world

This is fine. Along as they arnt shipped by way of penguin