Maryjoyce
I'm happy to have a discussion with you, or anyone else, based on facts rather than on feelings.
You agree with caringcarer when she makes statements that are incorrect or inacccurate:
Some companies who trade with both EU and non EU traders and say it takes about 15 seconds to complete an electronic form if non EU - My company trades around the world. The non-EU electronic form takes more than a few seconds to complete and is just a minor task at the start of the process. Shipping goods to a non-EU country involves using an agent and can take hours at the Customs posts both leaving the UK and entering the non-EU country. This delay is not going to get any shorter once the UK leaves the EU and will severely impact our ability to export both to non-EU countries and to the EU.
Some of the countries we trade with via EU have already offered us the same terms when we leave EU - no they haven't. Fox has concluded no deals at all with any of the major countries that the UK trades with. It is in the interests of these countries to wait until the UK is really suffering from the consequences of Brexit before entering into any agreements. Canada and others have already complained to the WTO about the UK attempting to roll-over the current EU agreements and quotas. They are lining up to take the UK to the cleaners.
We can still trade with EU just do so on WTO tarriff rates. There is no such thing as WTO tariff rates. UK goods would be charged the same rates as any other non-EU goods in order to gain access to the EU, making them too expensive for EU customers.
At the moment we pay a high tarriff on clothing from EU and WTO rates is lower for clothing so clothing would become cheaper. - Obviously untrue. At the moment the UK pays zero tariffs on clothing imported from the EU (even Boris knows this - it's one of his 'go-to' statements when he's telling us that the Italian fashion industry will be banging on doors to get a deal).
In the long run we should be able to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement to trade with Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. This is a loose trade agreement which will not prevent us trading freely with other countries - While not strictly incorrect, how will trading with countries thousands of miles away be better than trading with 450 million people just 20 miles away? What does the UK manufacture that can be competitive with the goods that these countries already buy - and if British products are so good, why are they not already being sold to these markets?