Japan Trade deal!

[GhostofTarbera]

We haven't had to negotiate trade deals for several decades, so we may not have very experienced negotiators. Maybe we should consider outsourcing this. Maybe the EU could lend us their team?

Surly we just send in the Royal Navy to blockade their ports


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[Mordac]

We haven't had to negotiate trade deals for several decades, so we may not have very experienced negotiators. Maybe we should consider outsourcing this. Maybe the EU could lend us their team?

After what was probably the shortest meeting on record, we've gone with Australia.

[darmstadt]

Should be finalised sometime in October...slowly more details are emerging and this might cause concern to some people:

Under the new deal, the UK and Japan have agreed to the “free flow of data” by not enforcing localisation requirements. This will allow Japanese conglomerates like Sony, and British fintech firms, such as Revolut and Transferwise, to operate from offshore servers.

The two countries also said that they would not mandate disclosure of source code of their software or algorithms, or share encryption information.

[darmstadt]

These Free Trade Zones aren't all they're cracked up to be: China imposes swingeing tariffs on Australian wine in 'devastating blow' to exporters | International trade | The Guardian

[zerosum]

Decent skewering of the deal here, Truss looks about as happy as Johnson/Gove the morning after the Ref; https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/...171888133?s=20

[darmstadt]

Decent skewering of the deal here, Truss looks about as happy as Johnson/Gove the morning after the Ref; https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/...171888133?s=20

She's also one of those who have swapped sides to further her own aims: