EU will export goods (to the USA) via Northern Ireland for lower tariffs, says economist

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x8ql5lgj7o

Apologies for editorialising the headline with brackets. The original headline was quite bad for context, lol

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Northern Ireland currently has access to most of the the wider UK market and EU market customs free, and now a 10% tariff rate for exporting to the USA. Seems like our wee country might start to do very well!

Chris108@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Careful, if you make it sound too attractive trump might want to buy it.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y

Just keep convincing the Americans that we're still blowing each other up and we'll be fine

Z3k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

This is fine. Along as they arnt shipped by way of penguin