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[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by PhilT2

The way a trade deal works is that they agree to allow us to sell in their country if we allow them to sell in ours. Nobody is going to make a one sided deal where we sell our coal in England and put their coal mines our of business but don't allow any of their products to compete with ours.
Maybe we could import UK made cars (made with Chinese or Indian parts) instead of Korean cars made with Chinese parts.
How are we better off?

By putting things we cannot make or grow ourselves in the deal. I'm sure we have a lot of things that we can't/won't make or grow here that we need.

[PhilT2]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

By putting things we cannot make or grow ourselves in the deal. I'm sure we have a lot of things that we can't/won't make or grow here that we need.

The UK has the same problem we do, they're a high wage country and now they have removed themselves from the EU they may not have easy access to that market, so now they can't manufacture in the large quantities needed to be really cheap.

China has cheap labour and a huge domestic market so they can afford to set up an assembly plant to manufacture a billion cell phones a year (2019 figures) Who can compete with that?