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Originally Posted by jonbxx
The question will always be where do manufacturers want to concentrate on and what gives the best margins? The EU market is bigger than the UKs so production lines will be slanted towards making goods for the EU market.
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This is a common misconception. In Scotland the SNP complains that Scotland is being denied access to a market vastly bigger than the UK one by “being dragged out of Europe against our will”, but the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Scottish “exports” go only as far as Englandshire.
Domestic markets, for most producers, most of the time, are most important. Freeing producers who sell primarily or exclusively to the domestic market from unnecessary and expensive compliance with EU regulations is one of the potential big wins of Brexit.