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Originally Posted by nffc
None of them are made here or at least a very small amount is.
But, also, none of them or very few of them are made in the EU either.
Most of the world imports these items from China, which fundamentally makes anything related to them not a Brexit issue - other than that we would then now have to make our own trade deal with China for them if we'd been previously using the EU's (though our items would presumably be different anyway, due to plugs, and would either need UK plugs moulded on or screwed over the Euro ones).
And given that the UK must still be a high importer of these items with or without Brexit, then there in principle shouldn't be issues with them.
But then, all of this ignores things like the Ever Green and Covid related shutdowns...
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My point was that, as you stated, we don't make them . . or most of them.
We're a consumer country, using the low wages and 'dirty' energy of other countries to supply our goods.
If we started making many of those ourselves, we'd be paying 4 times the price . . and still possibly having to import half the materials required.
We could probably make them to a much better quality to price them better, but then if items lasted 3 times longer we'd need to make less of them, which actually reduces production doesn't it.
It's a game isn't it, and one we seem to be losing
