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“Jumping from league one to league three”: WTO insiders’ scathing assessments of a WTO Brexit
08/07/2019
Plus: the director general contradicts claims that “Gatt 24” would kick in to help. / “If there is no agreement, then Article XXIV would not apply, and the standard WTO terms would,” said Azevêdo.
The aim of this briefing is to describe what happens under WTO rules if there is ‘no deal’.
Why One Brexit Trade Myth Refuses to Die
28/06/2019
For supporters of Boris Johnson, it’s doubly useful to pretend that international trade rules offer a free pass to a painless Brexit.
Deep into January 2019, as the Brexit clock counted down to mere days, an obscure and unnecessary World Trade Organization (WTO) rule was dragged into the heated public debate about Brexit...
So here's a story about how Jacob Rees-Mogg's nonsense can travel halfway around the world before the fact-checkers have got their boots on.
What is GATT 24: What is the WTO clause at the centre of Andrew Neil's grilling of Boris Johnson
13/07/2019
Johnson, frontrunner in Tory leadership race, admitted he 'did not know' detail of WTO rule he planned to invoke.
Trade experts have poured cold water on the idea that Britain could invoke an obscure clause in the international trade rules if it leaves the European Union without an agreement, but they say the claim keeps resurfacing to justify a no-deal Brexit.
Tory Brexiteers' claim that WTO rules let them pull a rabbit out of the hat is pure magical thinking
02/09/2019
Does the World Trade Organization (WTO) have a magic legal provision, one that Britain can use to get out of the “no-deal” Brexit jail?
To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
This Brexit Trade Myth Needs Busting Now
01/02/2019
The latest attempt by hardline Brexiters to dress up a no-deal exit as acceptable should be put out of its misery now.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg was wrong about this but he’s never corrected his mistake, and the myth persists. What is the claim and why is it wrong?
Terrifying ignorance by the ERG’s @ABridgen [Andrew Bridgen] saying UK can get ten years on zero tariffs
23/02/2019
Terrifying ignorance by the ERG’s @ABridgen, saying UK can get ten years on zero tariffs to agree an FTA by “instigating GATT24”, being told by @NickBoles the WTO have already ruled out that option...
Remainiacs Ep. 122: POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES with Brian Klaas, author of How To Rig An Election
28/06/2019
As the Tory leadership race is buried under an avalanche of dead cats, we’re joined by political analyst Brian Klaas – assistant professor of global politics at UCL, expert on authoritarianism... / Ian tells you how to destroy the GATT 24 argument in less than 30 seconds. How Boris Johnson’s June 26 2016 column was the ur-text of Brexit lies.
Remainiacs Ep. 117: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL Our trade future with guest Dmitry Grozoubinski
23/05/2019
Negotiator and trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski explains the reality of No Deal. / What’s in the WAB and has any May idea ever died quite so quickly? Final learnings from the EU Election campaign that everyone pretended never was. The pros and cons of milkshaking. Astroturfing for fun and profit.
Peter Ungphakorn - thread re Art. 24 (GATT)
15/02/2019
I rebutted @DCBMEP's original thread. He deleted most of it and retweeted it here. So here's my original rebuttal thread on why he's wrong, slightly elaborated.
“We want to use GATT Article 24” means “We want a free trade agreement in goods that complies with WTO rules”. It doesn’t say much.
“Article 24 of the World Trade Organisation treaty allows us to continue to trade with Europe on zero tariffs while we negotiate a free trade arrangement.” Statements like this keep returning to the political debate ...
Dmitry Grozoubinski joins Adrian Chiles and his guests to talk through the implications of No-Deal Brexit.
Supporters of Brexit are “completely wrong” if they think recourse to an obscure trade rule will stop tariffs springing up overnight if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Friday.
New European: Boris Busted
28/06/2019
Steve Anglesey and TNE digital editor Jono Read discuss the conspiracy theories surrounding Tory favourite Boris Johnson’s bizarre interview about painting wine crates and why Gatt Article 24 won’t solve a no-deal Brexit.