Tag: Brexit trade tariffs and barriers sparks

• Monday, August 21st 2017 - 08:45 UTC

  Hard Brexit proposal to remove all trade tariffs and barriers sparks strong controversy

  

  Removing all trade tariffs and barriers would help generate an annual £135bn uplift to the UK economy, according to a group of pro-Brexit economists. A “hard” Brexit is “economically much superior to soft” argues Prof Patrick Minford, lead author of a report from Economists for Free Trade, which insists that eliminating tariffs, either within free trade deals or unilaterally, would deliver huge gains.