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What are tariff barriers?

When goods are traded between countries, there is typically a fee charged for a good entering a different territory.
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What is divergence?

Where Brexit is concerned, it refers to the UK’s ability to change the rules governing different economic sectors once outside of the EU.
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What are rules of origin?

These rules allow governments to determine where goods originate from (i.e. where they have been produced or manufactured).
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What is the customs union?

A customs union is a trading area in which tariffs between member countries have been abolished and a single, common tariff is applied for trade with countries outside the customs union.
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What is the difference between a customs union and the customs union?

The difference is essentially the range and depth of co-operation that exists in terms of trading goods. Read this fact to find out more.
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What is a free trade agreement?

Free trade agreements reduce barriers to trade between two or more countries by reducing or eliminating tariffs and import quotas.
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Why does the UK have to pay the EU money to leave?

When the UK negotiated its exit from the EU, it agreed to honour the financial commitments it had made as a member state while ending any further commitments.
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What is the Brexit divorce bill?

This is the amount of money that the UK agreed to pay to settle outstanding liabilities that had built up during its EU membership.
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What is ‘Passporting’?

Passporting is a term used in the context of financial services. Find out more in this fact written by the UK in a Changing Europe.
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What is an equivalence agreement?

An equivalence agreement refers to a financial services agreement negotiated between the EU and a third country, which recognises the regulations of the third country as compliant with, and equivalent to, the EU’s own.
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What is a mixed agreement?

A mixed agreement refers to an agreement between the EU and a third country that touches both on powers, or competences, exclusive to the EU and on those exclusive to EU member states.
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Is Norway in the customs union?

Norway is part of the EU’s single market (it is a member of the European Economic Area), but it is not part of the customs union.
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