Benefit Of Free Trade

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Free trade Being part of the EU ensures that each member has free trade between all its member states. This is a great advantage for the UK and its businesses because it leaves them with no worry about import taxes or quotas. One of the main benefits of the European union is that it’s our main trading partner ,and membership of the EU has helped reduced both tariff and non- tariff barriers. According to sources, Half of the UK’s exports go to the EU (Shattock, 2013). As their main trading partner .If the UK was to leave the EU , it would be faced with the iron tariff wall that non-members face. This would destroy Britain’s Aggregate demand tremendously. Leaving the EU, could put the UK in jeopardy as it is an important aspect of the economy. Euro sceptics and the UKIP believe that even if we leave the EU, the UK’s free trade agreements can still be maintained due to the fact that countries such as Switzerland and Norway haven’t been excluded from EU agreements (Pettinger, 2013). However, it could be argued that France, Germany among with the rest of the main EU leading nations would never allow Britain a "pick and mix" approach to the bloc's rules (Peter, 2013) They also argued that Britain should rely on the membership of the World Trade Organisation to give access to markets. But, although the World trade organisation has indeed made a lot of progress with trade, it hasn’t secured free trade in manufacturing or services which do account for mostly all of the UK’s GDP. Also, if the UK left the EU, Britain would be opening up their markets to some of the world’s biggest economies such as China or Japan, more than they would open up theirs to Britain. This means, that Britain would be a minor under all these large economies a... ... middle of paper ... ... the UK and also announced the start of a new car which is supposed to create 400 more jobs at the Sunderland plant and 1,600 jobs in the supply chain (Ahmed, 2013). This would only boost the UK economy more. The main issue which might be restricted if the UK leave the EU is the right of UK citizens to work and live in other EU member states. Would all non-EU citizens have to migrate back to the UK? What would also happen to the thousands of jobs they would all have to leave behind? Immigration might have a lot of negatives, but do the negatives outweigh the positives? . Immigration has done very well for Britain. Being in the EU has made it easier for tourists to spend money which drives up the UK’s aggregate demand and boost the economy tremendously, it also has mad the UK a more attractive country for skilled workers such as engineers and doctors (Shattock, 2013)

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