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Originally Posted by BenMcr
That's for historical and colonial reasons though, rather than the most effective current market to source from.
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I thought that one of the arguments for Brexit was to help our domestic producers? All of the current post-Brexit activity seems more to about swapping one import market for another and still not developing our internal industries.
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Tate and Lyle is a domestic producer of refined sugar products. Their raw material is imported but then that’s not unusual for British manufacturers. Brexit has given us the freedom to decide whether British manufacturers should be able to source their raw materials on the world market or if they should be forced via tariffs to source domestically.
I’m not advocating a return to Empire preference, but if the product is available, well priced and useful to British manufacturers we must think very carefully about continuing with an EU tariff regime that was never designed to weigh up the pros and cons for the British economy.