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You can't escape "third country" status with a trade deal, though. As in, this is base EU law. At best, you could get some agreement which would be accepted to
by p_l 2y ago
You can't escape "third country" status with a trade deal, though.
As in, this is base EU law. At best, you could get some agreement which would be accepted to treat UK as acceptable party for GDPR-conscious business, but you're still a third party, and navigating patchwork agreements is why some companies will want to deal with company completely in EU instead.
- matt-p 2y agoWho says? The EU. There are other statuses that exist like EFTA and so on that don't have this issue, there's no reason at all why this couldn't be agreed (except that the EU haven't the incentive to make this work, quite the opposite).
- p_l 2y ago"Third country" is a term of EU law in this case, and refers to one country's status with regards to EU law - including how entities in EU can deal with them.
- matt-p 2y agoIndeed. Creating imagined barriers where nobody (eu companies/citizens, uk companies/citizens, or the uk government) actually wants or needs them. In practice IMO they are just there because they're incentivised to make things difficult for us.
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