God this man continues to prove what a complete tit he is.
Mr Mandelson said the criticism from the United States, Canada,
Australia, Brazil and New Zealand was motivated "entirely by self
interest". He insisted Europe, which has offered to slash its highest
agricultural tariffs by 60pc to create a more level playing field for
trade, had done its utmost.
Come along now Petey Boy, those high tariffs hurt us, the people of Europe. They make us poorer. It is in our direct interest to get rid of them.
Sandra Gallina, the Commission’s chief negotiator, said the mood of the
talks had changed to one where people were using their calculators to
add up what was in their own interest. She added that she wanted to
dismantle the high tariff in the US on imported ceramics and brass, a
move that would benefit the UK’s pottery industry. "There is billions
of dollars of trade there," she said.
Dear Lord, how have things come to this? We have a trade negotiator who doesn’t get the most basic principle. She’s not there to force other people to take our exports, nor to insist that the citizens of the USA become richer by being able to purchase cheap goods. She’s there to enable us Europeans to get richer by being able to buy cheap imported goods.
How in hell did we, 188 years after the publication of Ricardo’s tome on the subject, end up with a bloody mercantilist screwing up the trade system for us?
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