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It would appear however you want it to appear.. The UK is not Iceland and so is big enough and ugly enough to cut its own trade deals without having to have anything to do with EFTA.I wish I had a transcript of that George Galloway interview with Nigel Farage. I could quite happily spend a few hours pulling apart Nige's claims!
Nigel quote a bilateral deal that Iceland, a country in the EFTA, has recently completed with China.
But:
http://www.efta.int/free-tradeEFTA’s trade strategy has evolved progressively beyond the confines of the European continent. Since the late 1990s, the EFTA States have "gone global" with the objective of maintaining and strengthening their competitive position in the world. Through EFTA, the Member States have created one of the world's largest networks of preferential trade relations. EFTA's network of free trade agreements (FTAs) secures economic operators preferential access to markets currently of around 440 million consumers outside the European Union.
So, it would appear that Iceland is not free to make it's own bilateral deals!
Just like F&I claims and allegations, they're easily dealt with!
I suppose Nige was thinking, "I can make a claim about Iceland. No-one's going to bother to check if it's accurate or not."
It seems that Mr Farage was right.... https://www.mfa.is/foreign-policy/trade/free-trade-agreement-between-iceland-and-china/
He's frequently right about stuff