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I suspect the main attraction to our workforce is that they are low paid, compared to similar manufacturing jobs in the EU. I also read somewhere that the average American manufacturing worker earms $5 per hour more than the average British manufacturing worker.
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this seems to suggest it's only 2 dollars more in the US (assuming avg 40 hour week), and taking into account the extra holiday pay in the UK and the NHS i think staff here might be getting the better deal
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/wages-in-manufacturing?continent=g20
laner
Which also has relevance for FTA’s we might sign in future- cars produced here don’t have enough UK content to count as being made here, for the purposes of an FTA, so they’d attract tariffs even if “UK made cars” were zero rated in the FTA.