Don’t forget, imports from the USA could also mean:-
- Beef washed in ammonia (american pink slime)
- Genetically modified food
- Meat products laced with antibiotics
- Swine flu (from battery pigs)
- Flawed drugs testing (FDA)
- Contaminated blood & blood products
- Fake Whisky (Jack Daniels could wipe-out our Scottish industry)
- Fake French Wines from California, labelled “produit de E-U“
- Aggressive marketing (MLM – Pyramid selling – Ponzi schemes)
- Litigation culture
- High CO2 emission manufactured goods (outside Paris accord)
- 3-D printed guns that can kill, but cannot be detected
- Erosion of personal privacy
And Sajjad Karim has a good blog here of how negotiations with Donald Trump are likely to go: Hey Brexiteers – watch out Liam Fox! – The European public (especially UK citizens) did not want TTIP; we’re unlikely to change our mind now.
Seems the Tories now agree: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4806180/Tories-warn-David-Davies-avoid-trade-deals-US.html