Brexit might spark a "new era of financial and industrial decline" in Scotland that the nation would take a era to improve from, a union has warned.
GMB Scotland secretary Gary Smith spoke out as financial analysis for the union suggested nearly 144,000 jobs north of the border were linked to european demand for Scottish exports.
The file discovered "for Scotland the ultimate Brexit could be no Brexit in any respect", Mr Smith said.
He spoke after consultants at the Fraser of Allander Institute financial feel tank discovered that in 2015 very nearly 4% of Scotland's employment, with the exception of public-sector administration and defence, was supported by way of trade with the european.
That proportion become drastically higher in some sectors, with more than 14% of producing jobs linked at once to ecu export demand, whereas in computer, electrical and optical products the figure became even larger at more than 23%.
In subtle petroleum, chemical and pharmaceutical items it reached virtually 30%.
The document mentioned: "here is no longer to say that put up-Brexit these jobs may be misplaced (and even reduced).
"it is effectively to highlight the present degree of integration that exists between Scotland and Europe in terms of exports."
It warned leaving the european would "symbolize the most big trade to the Scottish economy in a era", adding its research indicated there may be "a major poor hit to Scotland's lengthy-term financial output and jobs in comparison to a state of affairs the place the uk remained within the european".
As Scotland's fundamental international trading partner, the ecu turned into the destination for greater than 45% of international exports in 2017 – with £14.9 billion of items and functions offered to other European countries.
The analysis follows an earlier examine the consider tank carried out for the union in November 2017, with the newest analyze suggesting in view that then 9,000 more jobs in Scotland are linked to change with the ecu.
Mr Smith referred to: "Let's be clear that for Scotland the premiere Brexit could be no Brexit at all however in absence of that there has to be a decent evaluation of our future prospects.
"Scotland's financial and employment interdependence with the eu has definitely extended and regardless of what kind the uk's withdrawal seems like within the final evaluation, it should be harmful to jobs and prosperity throughout the country.
"These are the hard statistics facing Scotland so this week we should still no longer entertain any nonsense from Brexit cheerleaders about 'taking lower back control' or a 'jobs first Brexit' – even at the eleventh hour the very least these riding us over the cliff-aspect can do is tell the reality.
"The fee of this political failure is frequently measured in divestment, redundancies and closures throughout Scotland – a new era of financial and industrial decline with a purpose to take hold over the following couple of years and take a generation from which to recover."
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