Things like foods

Means the EU likely arnt the cheapest anymore

I don't think you'll find a non-authoritarian solution to the climate issues without selectively leveraging import tariffs

And I don't think they'll have enough tax money to maintain the state as it stands

Cars, the USA just got a 10-16% import tax cut for sending cars here

USA won't be sending cars here any time soon

Which may disrupt the German car industry

USA cars are not UK spec

Wheel on wrong side

Not just cars

Parts too

Parts come from China in both cases

I work with the automotive ind

A surprising amount doesn't

China is getting expensive

Everything electrical is

And we're moving to electric cars. QED

Compared with automation

China is expensive

EU Car manufacturing is currently moving out of the EU anyway

Precious metals. Wonder if that is why China is spending so much time bulldozing Africa lately

Yes, Legna

There is a reason JLR are opening an EV plant in the UK

Also hybrid systems for motor sport are overwhelmingly developed in the UK

Which means the knowledge base is here

So yeah

Knowledge Base is one thing, manufacturing is entirely another

Yes, which is why automation is making up that gap

It's cheaper than china

Literally

Bypassing the minimum wage issue

It is allowing manufacturing to move closer to the knowledge base

Workers costing more

Which is an advantage

In the long run I would say so

Not for the workers it ain't

What are people expected to live on?

Yeah

Here it is

Since manufacturing is coming here that wasn't here in the first place

So they hire operators