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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Just looks like he's using emergency regulation to get round the commitment not to reduce environmental protection.
Certainly fails the man-on-the- Clapham-omnibus test even if it doesn't fail the test of keen Brexiters.
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Au contraire - 2 years is a wholly inadequate data set in order to prove your assertion. It ‘fails’ the test only in the mind of keen remainers who are still so triggered by Brexit they have a near pathological need to keep trawling the internet looking for proof they were right.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Depends what you mean by domestic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10472258
And it seems that was due to competition - although I do appreciate there is no context around the tariffs at the time |
In 2010, they were firmly under the influence of EU tariffs which were largely responsible for beet producers’ ability to undercut them. Cane and beet refining processes aren’t identical and you can’t simply feed different raw materials into the same factory set up. The raw commodity prices were effectively handing a built-in competitive advantage to manufacturers set up to use beet.