[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

No they are not!

How do you know? It hasn't happened yet :/

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

How do you know? It hasn't happened yet :/

Because I have read it somewhere. I'll dig it out later as I don't have time now.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Because I have read it somewhere. I'll dig it out later as I don't have time now.

Deals haven't been struck yet... how can you know things before they happen?
Anything is possible once we enter the WTO.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Deals haven't been struck yet... how can you know things before they happen?
Anything is possible once we enter the WTO.

Don't know what you are on about - we are already a member of the WTO - have been for years - and free movement is not a requirement.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Don't know what you are on about - we are already a member of the WTO - have been for years - and free movement is not a requirement.

'The UK is still a member of the WTO but sacrificed its independent seat when it joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 and became represented by the European Union (EU) in external trade negotiations.

By reprising its own membership once it break ties with Brussels, Britain could rely on its membership of the WTO for access to European markets and as a first step towards full-blown free trade agreements with other blocs and countries – including the EU.'

That means we don’t need to start all over again or reapply – we just need to comply with our new obligations.

We don't have a seat, we will have to retake our seat and to do that we will have certain 'obligations' ... Who knows what they will be?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/714...e-trade-nation

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

'The UK is still a member of the WTO but sacrificed its independent seat when it joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 and became represented by the European Union (EU) in external trade negotiations.

By reprising its own membership once it break ties with Brussels, Britain could rely on its membership of the WTO for access to European markets and as a first step towards full-blown free trade agreements with other blocs and countries – including the EU.'

That means we don’t need to start all over again or reapply – we just need to comply with our new obligations.

We don't have a seat, we will have to retake our seat and to do that we will have certain 'obligations' ... Who knows what they will be?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/714...e-trade-nation

Whatever those 'obligations' are they won't be free movement. Free movement is part of EU negotiations, not the WTOs.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Whatever those 'obligations' are they won't be free movement. Free movement is part of EU negotiations, not the WTOs.

That's right, WTO have mode 4 of GATS.

Here's what it will mean for us...

'Race to the bottom'
Mode 4, according to a definition by the WTO, refers to the "temporary movement of natural persons: when independent service providers or employees of a multinational firm temporarily move to another country".
Indian officials called for 40,000 workers to come to Europe under this scheme but EU negotiators said it should be half that. Twelve thousand of those could come to the UK.

Linda Kaucher, an academic studying trade deals, says this would not be good for British workers.
"I think it means an absolute race to the bottom now and in the future for jobs for UK workers," she says. "Numbers studying computing at university have slumped here because people don't want to be in competition with cheap labour. That means a real de-skilling for the country."

In a statement to the EU, she said that "insofar as Mode 4 allows corporations to bring cheaper labour into EU countries and capitalise on the wage differential, workers in the host countries have a great deal to lose".
The TUC has joined the debate, saying it does not want commitments that could lead to the exploitation of Indian workers or those already with access to the UK jobs market.
Owen Tudor, head of the TUC's EU and international relations department, tells the BBC that he is worried about "the under-cutting of the labour market in the UK, particularly for skilled graduates".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20525842