Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
You can't claim the only decent wing makers are in the UK.
It will come down to cold hard cash and if it will be cheaper elsewhere or even just probably cheaper elsewhere due to uncertainty over tarrifs etc they will go.
You would need t have massive tariffs to make it financially worthwhile to shut down the existing factory and create a brand new one in another country - even if the UK left under WTO rules with no FTA how many years would it take for Airbus to recoup that investment just by not paying tariffs?.
Also I don't know how it works in France but in the UK if you import a component and that is added to a new assembly and then re-exported there is no import tariff due on that original component.