Trade benefits of EU are ‘imaginary’: Report finds exports to Europe have grown at slower rate…

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 06:30 EST, 5 May 2014 | Tamara Cohen

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The trade advantages of being in the European Union single market are “imaginary” and have not helped British exports, according to a new report.

It claims the UK’s exports to Europe have grown at a slower rate than our trade with other leading countries outside the EU bloc, over the past four decades.

And the proportion of EU trade within Britain’s total exports of goods and services abroad, is no higher than when Britain joined the European Economic Community in 1973, at just over 60 percent.

Meanwhile, it points out that Britain’s trade with countries outside the EU—such Iceland, Norway and Switzerland—has increased enormously over the same period.

The report from the center-right think tank Civitas, using trade figures from the OECD, suggests fears about losing and jobs and growth if Britain leaves the European Union may be misplaced. …

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Full Daily Mail title:

Trade benefits of EU are ‘imaginary’: Report finds exports to Europe have grown at slower rate than trade with countries outside over the past 40 years

The whole EU is built upon successive lies. Everything about it is false. Bad idea to let it get its own military, because that will be the proverbial “state within a state” more so than Brussels currently is.

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As a free trade pact EU would have worked, instead they set out to regulate everything.
Europeans already have overbearing governments, a whole new layer was just too much of a dream come true for all their bureaucrats.

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A good pitch for the UK to leave the EU might be both freedom and liberty (from Brussels). This could well open the door to things like “food tourism”, with food products made in the UK that the bureaucrats have forbidden in the EU.

In fact, anytime anything is outlawed by Brussels, its production and sale should move to the UK. And to enjoy them, continentals would have to visit the UK.