Businesses in my constituency have expressed huge concern that, when we leave the EU, we will cease to receive the preferential tariffs that we currently enjoy with 188 countries outside the EU. Those businesses will cease to have the same competitive level playing field with EU countries that they have now, and by the time we have these free trade agreements, they will have lost their trade.
Customs and Borders
Proceeding contribution from
Ruth George
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 26 April 2018.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Customs and Borders.
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