Zero tariffs could “kill off some sectors of industry overnight”

Posted on 22 Feb 2019 by Jonny Williamson

Business leaders and trade unions have issued urgent warnings to government to stop gambling with the nation’s world-leading manufacturing sector and cease their plans for a wholesale reduction in import tariffs.

Zero tariffs makes the UK’s emerging trade remedies system ineffective from the outset – image courtesy of Depositphotos. Next week, politicians are expected to legislate on implementing zero tariffs on imported consumer goods in “as many areas of possible”. Such a move has the potential ruin the home market for UK-based…

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