With all this talk about trade deals, I am wondering how quotas actually work. Supposing we agreed a quota of 60,000 cars per year into the UK, what would stop Volkswagen exporting 60,000 cars in January and February, leaving Renault unable to export any?
In theory it's possible, in practice unlikely.
I mean they are a united band of brothers and sisters aren't they?
I'm sure they would respect the'level playing field' would they not?
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Are they? Surely Volkswagen regard Renault as competitors and vice versa?
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Why would they export cars without orders? They're not fish that have to be dumped after a sell by date
I was referring to the EU as a block, since the quota would pertain to the EU as a whole.
I was also being a tad sarcastic re the 'unitedness' of otherwise of the EU.
Have you not been following the EU stance on a deal? They keep banging on about a 'level playing field', i fear my attempt at humour may have escaped you.
I assure you I am very entertained by the idea that a market can resemble a football pitch. I was nonetheless mildly curious about the answer to the question I asked.
There might well be orders if German made cars remain in demand. I can certainly remember the days of waiting lists for cars.
When I specced a new german car in 2010, I waited 7 months for delivery, for its successor I found a "close enough" spec as ex-demo and purchased it next day.
I thought i answered your question in my first sentence!
viz, In theory it's possible, in practice unlikely.
I was asking about the the mechanism rather than the probability, but never mind.
I'd imagine they would apply a quota to each maker, but then, you easily could invent new makes to increase your quota. Come to think about it exporting the other way as happens a lot would be an issue and a lot of Eu citizens would see prices rise as well, so really its in everyone's interest to not have artificial tariffs applied all over the place but that never stopped the idiots before. Brian
Sheer practicalities of making 60k cars and shipping them to us in a short period of time. Chances are the ports will be clogged up with empty shipping containers and others containing unusable expensive PPE. (and that was before no deal Brexit induced buggeration of all ports)
We are going to have to get used to eating lamb and herring as those are the main things that we will fail to export once no deal tariffs come in. (and they are perishable so you quickly run out of cold stores)
Maybe it is more detailed than Total cars = 60,00 Maybe it is 20,000 French 20.000 Japanese 20,000 Italian
But for consumption of Joe Public it is described by classic media as
60,000
It has really, as it is a typical Express view of the EU. That they don't allow competition of any sort. As say between car makers within the EU.
Just another lie that persuaded the gullible to vote leave.
If VW were stupid enough to flood a market with cars they didn't have orders for, they could do it any time. And accept the consequences of them having to be sold at a vast discount, or left lying in a field.
Why should they not say 60,000 cars, distributed as British consumers choose them to purchase? Actually, with some modification for stock levels each manufacturer chooses, that is the only way to do it.
Are many japanese cars made in mainland Europe?
Quite a few are made in the UK, Nissan, Toyota, Honda.
So *that* was the reason behind it! We were conned! Dave, you really should have warned us all about this earlier and this disaster could have been averted. ;->
Yup. 26 weeks for a Ford Escort in the mid 70s, I recall. We had jobs a-plenty back then, before EU membership and Globalisation began taking their toll.
'They' can say what they want. I was merely pointing out that a quota may be a LOT more complicated than reported.
Fish surplus may be less of a problem once all the EU workers that our boats currently rely on go home, because they don't qualify for residence any more.
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