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Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Senior visiting research fellow @ Kings College London.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
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Hammering the keyboard with my closed fists (thanks!)
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They were both out, thankfully!
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Crime
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Just realised I missed some words in that original tweet
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I'm not saying that most of the people speaking about this stuff publicly have absolutely no clue what they are talking about, but I also am absolutely saying that.
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Haha! Finally
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Allow
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Well on the subject of design flaws …. You really wouldn’t like ours which funnelled all of the traffic onto the road you need to cross to get to the school.
Like I said, wouldn’t call for it to be scrapped, but does feel like it was designed by an imbecile
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Massively inconvenient. Like, it’s net better for me (my street is nice and quiet), but constantly seeing some folk pretend there isn’t a cost is infuriating
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I live in an LTN and it is badly designed and while I don’t want it to go away completely I would like them to make fewer stupid design choices
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Brutto is so good
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Made a reservation for next week, when people realise the US and China are still tariffing the hell out of each other
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Exactly. And y'know, sometimes, if there's a trade war going on, I might even still go. Because it is nice. Which is I guess why it has worked all these years
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Yeah … I’m prone to the occasional splurge on good food, and while the food is certainly good the pricing made me physically shudder.
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Weeks to actually feel better (sorry) — sunshine helps
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I like that the our LTN (Bounds Green) means our street is quieter; I hate that it was stupidly designed to force everyone who lives on our street and others nearby to drive past multiple entry points and join all the traffic onto the north circular i order to enter. I contain multitudes
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Fair
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Is publishing late on a Sunday night a sensible way to ensure your newsletter gets read? No. Do I have a choice at the moment? Also no.
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Yeah
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Still some questions on specifics, eg rules of origin and also the parallel China-related commitments. Also more negotiations to come (inevitably).
But for the weekend at least, probably take the W.
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Heh, maybe it is 10% after all
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US fact sheet says 25 to 10, suggesting they’re not accounting for MFN rate
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See ya all on Substack
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It’s basically this list (which amusingly had Vietnam on it) which has relevance for US trade defence measures but usually used as code for China — www.trade.gov/nme-countrie...
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“A piece of paper with some things written on it”
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Unclear — there’s a version of all of this where the US pressures other countries into taking similar action on China (eg tariffs, investment restrictions). Defo playing out in US negotiations with eg Vietnam but unclear how much of a priority for UK negs
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Trump will just say China, but it’s a standard US euphemism for China and often used when getting other countries to sign up to joined up action