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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Japan surveyed a bunch of their businesses, and have produced a document directed at both the UK and the EU.
It basically indicates the level of disruption the Japanese will tolerate from Brexit without it endangering their investments here and in the EU.
These requests will, for those opposed to EEA membership or something very close to it, be unacceptable.
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If you read for what Japan have asked for (other than EEA etc) then we can see the beginnings of a possible deal that doesn't involve the EEA.
Japanese companies have asked the EU for temporary passporting rights whilst they relocate (assuming no EEA). I think we could have a soft-brexit approach whereby we can limit EU migration almost immediately after exit and in return get some sort of trade deal for goods whilst services are given 'x years' free access which slowly gets wound down. So for a few years we'll have both limits on migration and be in the single-market with the single market benefits getting slowly removed.
It would stop any dramatic shock to both the EU and the UK whilst the EU get a lot of the big services firms and we limit migration.