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Originally Posted by Pierre
Is it down to Brexit?
Or is it down to the FTA Japan just signed with the EU which means they no longer have to have a presence in the EU to sell their cars tariff free. So they can take their manufacturing back to the UK reduce costs, employ Japanese workers and boost their own economy.
In Free Trade Globalisation, there are winners and losers.
This would have happened regardless of Brexit.
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We still, for one month, have better connections with the EU than Japan do now. Not only tariff free but the same market, they can move cars and parts across the EU as easily as we can move them from Glasgow to Cardiff. We're also
much closer, Just put the goods on a lorry and it can be in France in no time.
Yes in a globalised market we're competing with other countries and this might have happened anyway but we have just given away a massive advantage we had.