When faced with the choice of deciding whether to impose higher import tariffs on goods (exposing consumers to higher inflation) or lower ones (exposing firms to greater competition), the government’s latest tariff proposals suggest it has plumped for the latter. Even so, on aggregate the changes are not large and suggest that the effects on total UK GDP growth of the new tariff regime will be very small.
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