179 States sell to the EU with NO Customs Union and NO Single Market membership

They are not part of the EU, EEA, EFTA or anything else

Yet they sold £1.5 TRILLION of goods into the EU last year

Can you please explain this Phil?

The Chancellor in Davos

Brexit Facts4EU.Org has continued its analysis of the latest official trade figures from the EU, for 2018.

As the Remainer Chancellor Philip Hammond prepares to address the CBI today, our analysis blows the case for Single Market and Customs Union membership out of the water.

Brexit Facts4EU.org Summary

Trading with the EU? No membership of anything is required

179 states around the world sell into the EU’s Single Market

They are not members of the Single Market but they sell successfully to the EU
They are not members of the Customs Union but they sell successfully to the EU
They are not members of the EEA or EFTA but they sell successfully to the EU
They have control of their borders, their money, and their laws, and yet they sell successfully to the EU
And the only country in the top 40 with a full, ratified Free Trade Agreement is South Korea

Who are these countries which trade successfully with the EU?

Brexit Facts4EU.Org obtained the EU’s official data for all the goods bought by EU28 member states from around the world. We then excluded all the world’s states on the EU’s list which have any connection with the EU’s members. For example we excluded the Falkland Islands, Bermuda, French & Dutch island states, etc.

We then excluded all countries which are members of the EEA or EFTA, and further excluded countries with complicated arrangements with the EU such as Turkey and Switzerland.

We ended up with a list of 179 states, all of whom trade with the EU

They not only “have access to the Single Market”, they sold into it to the tune of nearly £1.5 TRILLION pounds last year.

Over 85% of sales into the EU in 2018 came from countries with no membership of the Single Market, Customs Union, EEA, EFTA, or anything else which Remain MPs might be able to think of.

Almost 50% of what EU28 countries bought last year came from just 3 countries: China, the USA, and Russia. The EU does not have a free trade agreement with any of them.

So what's the Chancellor's view on this?

Today the Chancellor, arch-Remoaner Philip Hammond, will give a speech to the arch-Remoaning CBI. In it he will say:

“To advocate for no deal is to hijack the result of the referendum and in doing so knowingly to inflict damage on our economy and our living standards.”

We hope the Chancellor will also quote the official facts above, which come from the EU itself.

Observations

We would simply like to ask the Chancellor to explain how it is that the vast bulk of sales into the EU come from countries with no Single Market membership, no Customs Union membership, no EEA or EFTA membership – and of course no EU membership.

We would go on to ask him to explain the fact that only one country out of the top 40 which sells into the EU has a fully-ratified trade deal (South Korea).

We might then even suggest he puts us on the payroll of the Treasury Dept, with nice salaries, London weighting allowances, and Government pensions.

As this is unlikely to happen, we welcome any public donations to help to keep us churning out great facts like those above. Quick and secure payment methods are below.

[ Sources: Latest official EU trade figures for 2018 ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 21 May 2019

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Reader Comments 12

1. Not a Hammond fan at all , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 05:31:

Excellent piece by the team again.
I wouldn't trust Hammond as far as I could throw him on anything to do with his job. So I can well imagine he will ignore the facts as most of the so-called conservatives do on a regular basis. He's blinkered like the rest of them stunned by the 'generosity' of the EU parasites.

2. Patrick F , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 06:07:

Dear Facts4eu,
Membership of the EU is more than the tangible benefits. It is the intangible.
How does the EU make you feel?
I feel better knowing that the UK taxpayer is making the German technocrats happy and their economy richer.
No deal will make our German friends unhappy. Do you want to be the cause of their unhappiness?
Smell the schnitzels, as we say in the treasury.
Philip Hammond.

3. Pud , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 07:26:

It's Hammond, May and the rest of the pro-EU Quislings who are trying to hijack the result of the referendum by refusing to enact the democratically expressed will of the people to leave the EU.

4. barbara Jell , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 08:23:

Excellent article - am sending to Hypocrite Hatchet Hammond today requesting answers - but don't hold your breath.
Will be great though to let HIM KNOW that WE KNOW things he would rather we didn't know!

5. Paul A , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 08:40:

“To advocate for no deal is to hijack the result of the referendum and in doing so knowingly to inflict damage on our economy and our living standards.”
Mr Hammond, you are a liar..what's more shameful is that you know it yet appear entirely comfortable with that.

6. Chris , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 09:23:

The reason that Philip 'Castlemead' Hammond is so pro-EU is that his property development company is totally dependent on cheap East European labour to make it viable. He fears that a true Brexit will make his labour force go home. He is just another greedy selfish Remoaning bastard.

7. Julie Dyson , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 10:27:

Brilliant article. I know the Brexit Party are new and doing their damnedest in so many ways, but now that their funding is properly off the ground it's really time they appoint someone on their website team to work closely with Facts4EU in getting this vital information out to the wider public on a regular basis via their own website (which can then be easily further spread via their superb social media network) -- and of course help to properly fund this essential work. We MUST actively promote the positives to counter all the ongoing Project Fear BS.
P.S. @ Patrick F - that gave me the first genuine LOL I've had in quite a while, thank you! :D

8. kzb , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 11:18:

A rather disingenuous article I'm afraid. The facts we are given may be true but other salient facts are omitted.
These non-EU states have trade agreements in place with the EU. Not with the UK. Attempts to split quotas between the EU and the UK have run into difficulties at the WTO.
Goods from non-EEA/Customs Union countries pay the EU external tariffs (with some exceptions for poor countries). These import tariffs are quite high on some food products. Also, there are the phytosanitary checks. Meat products are physically checked at the EU border posts. There is no electronic customs shortcut for this. UK food products would attract these tariffs and have this "friction" at the border. Whereas EU (and RoW) imports into the UK will be zero-rated (except beef). All this is very bad news for UK farmers.
On the other hand we could import cheaper food, maybe good for consumers, but UK food production will suffer.
SO perhaps Facts4EU can tell us how these problems will be made better?

9. Sydney Ashurst , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 12:10:

Can a new Conservative leader get out of May's mess?
Would the next leader of the Conservative Party want Rudd or Hammond in their Cabinet, or any of the current Cabinet for that matter.
Non of them in voting for the diabolical never ending/concluding Withdrawal Agreement have shown any Statesmanship.
It would be starting with a millstone round their neck.

10. Adam Hiley , Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 17:12:

whoever takes over from Mother Theresa must get rid of Hammond and ship the fake Yank Carney back to Canada

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