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Document drafted in attempt to sell deal to Brexiter MPs suggests PM’s negotiators got their way on 43% of key issues
Boris Johnson will boast of a victory in the post-Brexit trade and security talks, claiming to have won 28 key battles compared with Brussels’ 11 triumphs while admitting to a fisheries compromise, according to a leaked government document.
The paper, drafted as part of the UK government’s attempt to sell the deal to Brexiter MPs, suggests David Frost’s negotiators got their way on 43% of the major issues, compared with 17% for the EU’s Michel Barnier, with 40% of the treaty being a balanced compromise.
Questions remain over the paper, in particular over its claims to have protected British-based car manufacturers.
The UK claims a victory on so-called cumulation, which sets out whether manufactured goods containing parts made outside Britain can be exported to the EU without tariffs.
The paper says that the UK won on this issue as they persuaded Brussels to include EU materials and processing to be counted as British input when exported into the European market.
A product would therefore only attract tariffs, under the agreement, if more than 40% of its pre-finished value was either not of British origin or from a non-EU country such as Japan.
The reality, however, as Frost admitted in a letter to the car manufacturing industry in September, is that the UK was seeking a far more ambitious agreement.
The UK wanted manufacturers to be able to in effect count products from countries with which both sides have a trade deal, such as Japan and Turkey, as being British input.
Frost admitted in in a letter on 6 September that “the [European] commission has made clear that it will not agree third-country cumulation in any circumstances, which we regret, but obviously cannot insist upon”.
Despite the doubts over some of the “wins”, the document illustrates the scope and value of the trade deal to the British government and areas where Frost’s team did achieve their negotiating goals.
One of the biggest sticking points in the talks was the EU insistence that Brussels should be able to apply tariffs if the two sides diverge in terms of environmental, social and labour standards in the future.
While the landing zone was a mutual compromise, it bears a closer resemblance to the UK objective than that of Brussels.
The British government had merely wanted a reflection point in the future where the two sides could discuss upgrading the basic minimum from which neither could below.
The UK government document states: “The UK rejected the EU’s asks for an ‘equivalence’ mechanism, and instead secured a review and rebalancing clause which allows either side to initiate a formal review of the economic parts of the deal, including the level playing field provisions, and update the balance of the agreement over time.
“Any short-term rebalancing measures are strictly limited and proportionate and subject to the approval of an independent arbitration panel.”
On fisheries, the issue that dogged the talks right to the end, the UK document says there was a “mutual compromise”. Frost had said that the UK should retain the right to close off access to European fleets if an annual negotiation over quotas did not result in a mutually satisfactory conclusion. Brussels was demanding greater assurances for its fishing communities.
The final deal provides for a transition period of five and a half years to allow new quotas to be phased during which European fleets will retain full access to waters, including the zone six to 12 nautical miles from the British coastline, an area the UK had wanted to retain exclusively for UK flagged vessels.
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Boris Johnson has been accused of selling out farmers – particularly in Scotland and northern England – after it emerged that seed potatoes are not set to be included in a post-Brexit trade deal.
A letter from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the EU would allow almost all food and plant exports from Great Britain to continue from 1 January.
However, seed potatoes will be banned. The Defra letter says: “Unfortunately the EU have confirmed they will not accept our case for a permanent change to the prohibition on seed potatoes … on the grounds that there is no agreement for GB to be dynamically aligned with EU rules.”
Scottish seed potato farmers are one of the biggest exporters for the production of chips and crisps in the world, with the sector accounting for three-quarters of UK production and worth about £112m a year.
James Withers, the chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said: “There’s no dressing this up. This is bad news for Scottish seed potato exporters. One-fifth of our exports go to the EU, more than 20,000 tonnes a year.
“It may be a smaller industry in a big trade deal, but tell that to the companies and farmers affected. This will feel to them about as far from a definition of free trade as is possible. There are still markets elsewhere and a roll-on deal for Egypt is good news.”
Sales to Northern Ireland, which will operate under EU arrangements under the terms of last year’s withdrawal agreement, are also likely to cease.
The Scottish National party’s shadow environment, food and rural affairs spokesperson, Deidre Brock, said: “If these reports are true, it would be a terrible negotiating failure on the part of the Tory government – and a devastating blow to an extremely valuable part of Scotland’s booming farming industry.
“It is clear that the Tories are selling Scotland’s farming and fishing industry out and planning a total betrayal of our rural communities – with a hard Brexit that will cause serious and lasting damage to exports, jobs, living standards, businesses and the economy.”
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