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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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We have given away nothing. The EU may have done so if the free trade deal now makes it more profitable for Japan to manufacture "in house".