On rules of origin

I have written about rules of origin mostly in terms of chlorinated chicken and the such and what would happen if it came into the UK supply system, and that the EU would want to make sure that it could not be exported to them.

But there is another factor.

To be labelled as being made in the EU, a certain percentage of a product must have been made and/or assembled in the EU 27. When the UK was the EU28th, not a problem, but of of the EU and once the transition period ended, then a bigger problem.

If 60% of an item has been have been sourced in the EU to qualify as being EU made, then calculating whether that part or this part manufactured in the UK threatened that, then a company might just to decide, fuck it, lets get it from inside the EU.

The same thing could happen to items that you would need to label as being UK made for export, then what would happen if you could not source something within the UK?

And then there are the tariffs and non tariff barriers on things like biscuits: this is the kind of detail that international trade centres around, and most Brexiteers don't give a flying fuck about, but will be important.

Bluff and bluster won't cut it. I would like a PM who was on top of his brief and realised the issues rather than have one who looks like he doesn't know how a comb works.