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Originally Posted by abailey152
This is not about trade with India. This is UK companies who MOVE their operation to India, but then expect to continue to sell their goods and services back into the UK as if nothing has changed.
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The figures listed show trade in good and trade in services. The outsourcing of a call centre is a trade in services.
If we are to put tarrifs on UK companies outsourcing jobs to India why should they or would they not put a similar tarrif on the services that are outsoruced from India to the UK?
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Originally Posted by abailey152
What would you suggest? Do nothing? Massive pay cuts in order to compete with cheap foreign labour? I doubt if this sort of thing would be allowed to continue unchecked in many other countries.
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I suggest nothing in the way of 'solutions'. I merely contributed to this thread to point originaly how offensive and potentialy libelous Kittys comments were, re Mike Banderia, and then to point out how uninformed her comments on tarriff duties on the outsourcing service jobs (trade!) was. Thats all. The fact remains that _trillions_ of pounds worth of trade go on between India and the UK, in both directions. How starting to slap tariffs on such trade is benefical to anyone or UK jobs in particular I do not know.