Now Belgian carpet makers warn against
trade barriers with the UK
BELGIAN carpet makers
yesterday warned the EU not to start a TRADE WAR with BRITAIN.
They joined German car makers in raising
concerns about how businesses would suffer if Britain was barred from
tariff-free access to the SINGLE MARKET.
More than £535million of carpets, curtains
and other fabrics are sold across the Channel from Belgium every year.
Far Quix, head of the country's Textile and
Carpet Federation, said the UK IS Belgium's biggest market.
He said BREXIT had already 'cast a shadow'
over the industry, adding that orders will be lost' because of the
weakening pound. 'This has made the British competitors 15per cent
cheaper with a few months,' he said. 'Especially in 2017, we will
feel the effects.' In the long
term he said trade barriers' would be a much bigger problem... then a
revenue loss of 20 to 30 percent would be possible'. Tom Debusschere,
chief executive of carpet giant Balta, said
'The
important thing is no new trade barriers.'
The Belgian fishing industry has
also warned it will be under threat if it is barred from British waters.
Its 70-strong fleet nets about 60 per cent of its catch- about 12,000
tons-off Britain's coast.
A spokesman said; Where else can
we fish? There is only part of the Bay of Biscay and the Irish Sea.'
German car manufacturers have
also demanded that Britain be allowed to continue trading with the eu
without any trade barriers. Matthias Wissmann president of the GERMAN
ASSOCIATION OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, SAID' NOW IS THE TIME FOR
CALMNESS'.
'FOLLOWING BRITISH DEPARTURE
FROM THE EU, IT WILL BE IN NOBODY'S INTEREST TO MAKE THE INTERNATIONAL
FLOW OF GOODS MORE EXPENSIVE BY ERECTING CUSTOMS BARRIERS BETWEEN
BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT,' HE SAID.
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[there appears to be a
unusual silence from the uk fisheries who's livelihood was given away by
the
traitor
and
nazi spy edward heath
in the
rogue
negotiations with the
so-called eec in 1972. apart
from the brilliant article from
Richard
Littlejohn
before the vote there has not been a word of what
brexit will
mean to our decimated and MUCH DIMINISHED fishing industry-why?]
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