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There are appropriate. cries of outrage from
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top manufacturers but little more than a hand-ringing from officiałdom.
Mr Haddon-Cave will need to have something worthwhile in his bag when he returns from London today to dispel the suspect smell of Whitehall influence.
The long-term advantages of reverting to quo- tas instead of a tariff will hardly offset the meagre one per cent growth rate Britain is now ramming down our throats. If the Mother Country treats us as roughly as this, what can we expect from the United States and other countries with no obligations to Hongkong?
Last-minute second thoughts by Britain leave
many of our enterprising exporters in a financial hole that demands at least compen- sation.
Buying and selling quotas is at the best of
times an undesiřekla kuliñoedi
Just when we seemed to have got rid of them with Britain, down they come again – just as arbitrarily, but with an attempt at silently and
softly.
Shame!
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