b'FoodClothing Negotiating strength depends on what aOn textiles, the EUs CET is 15-20% in order country has to offer. The UK has an aceto protect EU textile exporters. The UK as a up its sleeve, in the shape of a willingnessnet importer is unlikely to export textiles to to importfood withouttrade barriers. Thatthe EU on any scale. It will have access to gives us a strong card when negotiating asignificantly cheaper textiles by cutting or free trade agreement with any food exportingeliminating this tariff. country - of which there are many. TheEU, as a net exporter of food, lacks this advantage, and places protectionisttariffs onCarsagricultural imports. On motor vehicles, the EUs CET is 10%, Nevertheless we cannot take full advantagemore than three times its average rate unless we revert to our historical policy offor industrial products.Britain exports buying food at world prices, and subsidisingsubstantial numbers of vehicles to Europe, all UK farmers directly, if we choose to do so.from foreign-owned plants, and many relying heavily on international supply-chains which66'