Whilst we are in the customs union we cannot make deals around the world.
This is a problem. For instance we could join the trans Pacific pact tomorrow and have zero tariff access to Japan, Australia, Vietnam etc. The next day.
This is why we can’t have Mays deal. It’s beyond useless. She has let the clock count down and made Eunuchs of Parliament as they will vote against no deal.
Then it’s Mays deal or never leave.
She’s a fraud.
And that concerns the rest of Europe in what way?. We have discussed these concepts again and again. You and others choose to believe, against any particular evidence that there is unicorn country out there. Every single one of those countries you list is very happy to sell to you, however they will be less happy to buy from you. What are the Unique Selling Points USPs as the business studies lecturers say that UK Ltd have to offer?. Bearing in mind that you are now in competition with the worlds largest trading block ,that China has almost completed its industrialisation phase .,that Japan is in a wealthy post industrial services economy, and have twice the UK population . The Vietnamese are not as wealthy as the Germans, the Australians are wealthy, but there are not much more of them than in Luxembourg.
My understanding is that the Customs Union is a temporary arrangement until such time as the UK has
a satisfactory solution to the east west or north south customs arrangements,which will prevent border posts being set up on the island of Ireland.
When those arrangements are sorted, you can buy as many irradiated and chlorine irrigated chicken carcases as you like,provided they don't get into the EU food chain.
The fact simply is that even should they wish to , UK businesses have lost the expertise in setting up the entire global supply chain structure. They like the rest if us have been reliant on the EU,to sort these things.
I try not to personally critique UK politicians, but the glaring inadequacies of the approach over the last 2.5 years is difficult to ignore. Case in point, academic courses in international business, logistics, tax management, should have been funded,and when graduates from these were well established,that would have been the time to trigger Article 50. I am partial to a particular salt salt product Maldon Salt flakes. Like many other artisan producers will it have the logistic back up to sell into Vietnam and Japan?.