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Hard Brexit - the EU's Biggest Import Tariffs

Geoff Riley

27th November 2016

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Our friends at Trade News Analysis have produced this handy summary of the steepest import tariffs applied by the European Union to non-member nations.

It is a useful primer if the UK ends up with a "hard Brexit" outcome because it suggests that a number of industries with significant exports to the EU could be in serious trouble.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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