China: Market Economy Status

Baroness Stowell of Beeston Excerpts
Monday 9th May 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
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My Lords, you need to help me out when this happens. I suggest that we hear briefly from the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, and then go back to the Conservative Benches.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch Portrait Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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But my Lords, if we were not in the European Union, would we not be able to make our own free trade with China, as many smaller economies have done?