LETTER: Cut imports to help grow jobs
Localisation drives in manufacturing are essential and full implementation of the poultry master plan is long overdue
03 December 2020 - 14:26
I devoted 10 years to looking after the interests of meat and poultry importers and defending them against a number of regular tariff increases and other trade duty applications. I did this as I believed, as I still do, that imports are an essential part of a healthy economy and protectionist measures are a double-edged sword.
However, those were “normal” times, a situation that simply does not exist at the moment. There is still a role for imports in our economy, but a reduced role...
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