[Silhouette]

Have you ever met a client who would let you build the entire site for them, over an extended period during which you're charging for your time, and only on the final day of project present it to them for the first time, offering them only the choices to accept or turn down the site with no options for review or rework?

[witty_username]

> you're charging for your time

This is why this analogy is wrong. If a country doesn't accept the TTIP it'll be fine. There's no cost incurred.

[Silhouette]

If a country doesn't accept the TTIP it'll be fine. There's no cost incurred.

What about all of the time, money and resources invested in futile negotiations?

There's also the opportunity cost. It takes a lot of time to conduct these kinds of negotiations, and during that time trade is still happening. If the pursuit of a bad deal wastes a lot of time while a better deal, even on a smaller scale or with more limited scope, would have been possible, then all of the trade that could have happened under that better deal has been undermined.

[witty_username]

You're right.