Extract from Public Bill committee consideration of the Trade Bill - Jan 25
Friday, 26 January 2018 07:32
Hannah Bardell (Livingston) (SNP):...In terms of fisheries, food
standards and health, which I mentioned before, there are lots of
areas where promises have been made. There are issues around
tariffs and protections. For instance, I was told during one debate
that it is far better to do a trade deal
with India because it is so big and so on, but the wages
in manufacturing in India are about 79p an hour, and we
are approaching £8 an hour here. If a trade deal is done
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(Livingston)
(SNP):...In terms of fisheries, food standards and health,
which I mentioned before, there are lots of areas where promises
have been made. There are issues around tariffs and protections.
For instance, I was told during one debate that it is far better to
do a trade deal with India because it is so big and so on, but
the wages in manufacturing in India are about 79p an hour, and we are
approaching £8 an hour here. If a trade deal is done that opens up
markets without the right level of consent from devolved
Parliaments and industry groups, that will not be a trade deal but
a bonfire of manufacturing in the United Kingdom. There have to be
checks and balances in that. Multiple sectors will have to feed
that in, because if we do not know that, we are going to be signing
trade deals that will have unforeseen consequences, and I think
that will be very damaging to the UK economy...
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