Originally Posted by
Kerosene Kraut
By using that word I wanted to differentiate between actual production and designing them. If you have tariffs or similar between the UK and EU moving hardware might be the issue. Maybe not so much the think tank work.
The point a lot of manufacturers are jumping up and down about is Non-tariff barriers. So having to fill in paperwork every time you cross the border, being unable to easily move people from place to place on either short or long term postings, regulatory divergence, rules of origin etc etc. Relatively small amounts of friction make big differences. And before people say "airbus say they could move manufacture to china or Alabama and they are outside the EU so this isn't about Brexit" think about it being a set of scales, all these locations are constantly in competition for future investment or rationalisation. Being inside the EU is a huge advantage to the UK when it comes to supply chain. While inside the EU the UK Airbus operation has been able to beat off competition from other sites. If we take that away then the calculation is no longer between a UK inside the EU and a China or Alabama outside the EU (or another inside EU location) . For the long term it's about relative advantage and we are giving that away.