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by morkalork 12 days ago
Steel on its own is inert and useless, you need to retain the entire downstream manufacturing ecosystem that consumes it. Like cars for example, producing steel but letting all your vehicle manufacturers sell off to foreign owners just so you can import BYDs doesn't do you any good.
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The UK car industry had been doing quite well until Brexit.
Uk based but foreign owned UK car industry…
Yeah I was going to say what brands are actually still British?