{"id":124050,"date":"2019-06-22T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/why-gatt-24-wont-help-a-no-deal-brexit-uk\/"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:10:14","slug":"why-gatt-24-wont-help-a-no-deal-brexit-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/why-gatt-24-wont-help-a-no-deal-brexit-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GATT 24 wont help a no-deal Brexit UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unicorns are still running free in the Tory leadership contest and some candidates seem determined to keep chasing them \u2014 particularly when it comes to how the U.K. would fare in a no-deal scenario.<\/p>\n<p>A line from front-runner Boris Johnson during the leadership debate on Tuesday was a case in point. He was challenged by Rory Stewart \u2014 who was knocked out of the race Wednesday \u2014 over colossal tariffs on lamb if the U.K. leaves the EU without a deal. Johnson resurrected a WTO myth that has had trade wonks pulling their hair out for months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no tariffs and there will be no quotas,\u201d Johnson declared. \u201cWhat we want to do is get a standstill in our current arrangements, under GATT 24 or whatever it happens to be, until such time as we have negotiated the FTA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theres no disputing that Article 24 of the World Trade Organizations General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/tratop_e\/region_e\/region_art24_e.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exists<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Cornelius\/status\/995341574681907200\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2019\/02\/26\/great-brexit-betrayal-nearly-complete-theresa-may-still-has\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a> and other Brexiteers have touted it as a way to keep tariff-free trade flowing across the Channel even if the Withdrawal Agreement is never ratified by the British parliament and there is therefore no Brexit transition period. According to Brexiteers, the legal text keeps tariffs at zero for several years when a free-trade agreement is being negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>However, Article 24 only applies to countries who are on the verge of finalizing free-trade agreements with each other \u2014 a situation the U.K. would certainly not be in on November 1 this year, whether there is a deal or no deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Brexit group Lawyers For Britain is <a href=\"https:\/\/lawyersforbritain.org\/a-simple-explainer-about-article-xxiv-of-the-gatt\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now making a somewhat fanciful call for a mini-FTA<\/a> in order to pave the way to using Article 24.<\/p>\n<p>And theres another massive stumbling block to all of this: The EU would need to be on board, too.<\/p>\n<p>European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstr\u00f6m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-eu-trade\/no-hope-of-avoiding-tariffs-in-no-deal-brexit-eus-malmstrom-idUSKCN1TF24K\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Reuters<\/a> less than a week ago that the idea is \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d and that no deal would definitely mean tariffs. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f9af6b90-5a15-11e9-939a-341f5ada9d40\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has set out weighty conditions<\/a> for trade talks to begin if there is no deal.<\/p>\n<p>Trade experts who spoke (with a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/why-gatt-24-wont-help-a-no-deal-brexit-uk\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unicorns are still running free in the Tory leadership contest and some candidates seem determined t..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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