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Brexit Scaremongers in Retreat as British Manufacturing and Retail Sales Surge
2017-09-06
[Breitbart London] EU loyalists and Brexit doom-mongers have experienced another setback, with Britain’s manufacturers and retailers enjoying a surge in exports and sales.

"Britain’s manufacturers are enjoying buoyant conditions on the back of export markets going from strength to strength," announced the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in a press release, following a "major survey" of some 416 manufacturing firms.

"Manufacturers appear to have taken the recent political upheaval in their stride," noted EEF chief economist Lee Hopley, with the cheaper pound boosting British firms’ competitiveness abroad ‐ as experts predicted.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Because the US is a nation that consumes, rather than saves. China's stuff is cheap because it's built by slave labor (their competitive advantage) and carries little/no tariffs. So we buy Chinese (or Vietnamese or Indonesian, whoever's cheapest) as fast as we can. Straight economics at work.
Posted by: Glomosing Omainter7636   2017-09-06 12:37  

#4  Commenters #2 and #3 have answered correctly. The purse will be divided equally.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-06 12:04  

#3  Willsomeone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ?

Kickbacks?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-06 11:46  

#2  So corporations like Hewlett-Packard can have their stuff manufactured by cheap slave labor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-09-06 11:34  

#1  Will someone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-06 08:49  

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