Jim Quirk Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade Interoperability

Richard Larsson Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade I understood what you meant. It's only negligible in the weak minded. I suspect you're one who whined that it may only add 0.8% to our GDP and I suspect you may have been happier at the EU-Japan trade deal but that was worth 0.8% GDP to EU and 0.3% to Japan's

Jim Quirk Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade 0.08% remember, it is only an FTA with Malaysia and Brunei.

Richard Larsson Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade I'm now laughing at you

Jim Quirk Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade We are laughing together

Richard Larsson Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade We're really not

Jim Quirk Justbob11 Gully Foyle #UKTrade Yes we are

Richard Larsson Jim Quirk Gully Foyle #UKTrade No we're not

The 0.8% figure is the immediate saving, it makes no allowance or forecasts of the increase in trade due to reduced barriers

Japanese one alone provides for services, especially digital and financial, something the UK couldn't get the EU to sign up for

Justbob11 Jim Quirk Gully Foyle #UKTrade The services trade between Japan and UK has fallen off a cliff, how so? What’s the benefit I ask?

Justbob11 Jim Quirk Gully Foyle #UKTrade A year after the signing of the FTA 🇬🇧 services exports to Japan was down 9.2% and imports were down 22%.

Justbob11 Jim Quirk Gully Foyle #UKTrade The 0.8% vs 0.08%(the actual figures) was in reference to expected gain from membership of the CPTPP to UK gdp over the long term. Not my figures but official government figures