Posted on 07/06/2016 9:48:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), are calling on President Obama to negotiate a new free-trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK) following the UK’s “Brexit” from the European Union last month.
The proposed United Kingdom Trade Continuity Act the two GOP senators co-sponsored states that it will “provide for the continuation with respect to the United Kingdom of existing commercial agreements between the United States and the European Union, [and] encourage the President to expeditiously negotiate a new comprehensive bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom.”
The bill, introduced less than a week after the June 24 Brexit referendum, expresses American support for Brexit and proposes that a U.S.-U.K. free-trade agreement confirming the “special relationship” between the two nations be negotiated within 30 days of its passing.
“It is the sense of Congress that — the United States supports the decision by the people of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union,” the bill states. …
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A deal should be made based on their weak & strong points.
They shouldnt just let Britain dump everything they want on the market just because they voted for freedom, out of some sort of comradery.
Oh, this won’t happen. Notice the “encourage the president” hyperbole.
I’m sure Bammy will get right on that after he finishes ushering in Sharia, dhimmi fools.
i have concerns about totally free trade agreements as they create a real loss of sovereignty
as one can see from the EU experience
but CERTAINLY we can do a very good trade deal with UK,at least we will be able to just as soon as we send O back to Kenya or Krapistan!
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), are calling on President Obama to negotiate a new free-trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK) following the UK’s “Brexit” from the European Union last month.
>Hats off to Mike Lee and Tom Cotton, great senators, good leadership on UK’s Brexit.
Brits voted for freedom and against globalism. The Liberal Messiah will not reward them for that. If a trade is to be worked out between the United States and an EU-less Great Britain, it will have to occur under the next administration.
I have bought some British products on Amazon in a small effort to support Brexit.
No “Free Trade” agreements with anybody. Just enact unilateral free trade with the concomitant elimination of regulations and regulatory agencies and the drastic reduction or elimination of business taxes. America will get rich like Americans have not dreamed of, will again be the world center of industry and innovation.
I like Mike Lee, too. Unfortunately, he’s siding with the scum by not endorsing Trump. It was okay earlier on, because Cruz is Lee’s friend. It’s NOT okay now!
Rational in the geopolitical sense.
But it’s a political non-starter. Not at least until after Trump fixes our other problems with trade.
or trade will continue as normal till the bad one is gone
Are the Senators aware that the UK has not actually parted ways with the EU yet?
When EU leaders next meet in September, only 27 will be there, with Britain already shut out. “That is a good next step,” said Merkel. …If the EU elites are already acting like the UK is out, I suppose the Senators in question can be forgiven for thinking so. Unless they really want to go into detail about Article 50, which gives all the negotiating power to the EU either way.
Mike Lee hates Trump. Tom Cotton says, “I will support the GOP nominee” — not an endorsement per se. So it’s doubtful these two wannabes will use Trump’s good advice. Maybe they hope to make a deal before January, to polish their luster. Lots of luck with that.
I’ve seen a lot of tacit support for Trump out of Lee of late. So if there is hate, it is being overridden by political realities and the need to keep a criminal placed above the law for all intents and purposes out of the White House.
And the free trade issue is separate from whatever internecine problems you allude to here. It’s an ineffectual dig at Obama’s “back of the queue” comment, and the problem is with its ineffectuality; if the GOP was not overrun with the liberal RINOs, it might actually have some traction.
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