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Message:: [QUOTE="robp, post: 6431713, member: 96746"]There shouldn't be any change in trade between either the EU or the UK and the US unless someone changes the rules. The export of cultural objects will always be a contentious issue, but there are systems in place. The EU is trying to make life difficult for imports from the UK, but one would hope that we would reciprocate. Distrust is after all a mutual two-way thing. I'm sure they will be consistent and have no hesitation in blockading Calais if croissant deliveries in Marseilles are 10 minutes late. I don't believe that they feel so threatened by a country only 1/7th the size of their community by population, rather I think there's a lot of sour grapes now a cash cow has upped and left. The recent action by the EU invoking article 16 to stop Covid vaccines reaching the UK via Ireland having spent years making the border issue the determining factor was a good case in point. We should have walked away from it too and stuck two fingers up to them. The EU have long wanted to move financial services away from London as none of the founding member states had the same clout. If they dictate that Euro transactions have to be done within the boundaries of the EU, then that is their decision which we can do nothing about. The EU has always been protectionist (for the interests of the founding members). We shall see what transpires.[/QUOTE]