Trade war begins

[ContractorOnAMotorbike]

Indian bikes are not quality bikes.

Bit of a sweeping statement but never mind.

[sasguru]

The bikes are built for the local market to a price.

Quite. That's the limit of where protectionism can take you.
The next step though would be to open up the indigenous market to foreign competition.
Without that standards are unlikely to rise.

[sasguru]

Bit of a sweeping statement but never mind.

Which Indian bike is at the cutting edge of technological sophistication, safety, build quality and desirability?
AFAIK the Royal Enfield is popular in the Uk among some enthusiasts purely because of nostalgia - it's essentiallly a copy of a 50s bike.

[darmstadt]

India's automobile exports have grown consistently with the United Kingdom being India's largest export market. Car imports from India to the UK spiked last year with an 8.3 percent hike in a registration of Indian-built vehicles by buyers in Britain and the popular Indian-made models are Ford Ecosport, Ford KA+, Nissan Micra and Suzuki Baleno.

BTW, Triumph, BMW, Honda, Yamaha all make motorcycles in India, also for export...

[BlasterBates]

The fact is the UK has to abide by the tariffs they agreed to at the WTO, so very little wriggle room in terms of what they can protect without completely isolating themselves at the WTO. Very very unlikely that the UK will be able to negotiate any changes at the WTO. There are anomalies like India's bike tariff but that is what it is, it was negotiated years ago.

The only direction the UK can go is to reduce tariffs not increase them.

[woohoo]

Why introduce tariffs at all!

[sasguru]

Why introduce tariffs at all!

Doh!

[BlasterBates]

Why introduce tariffs at all!

bye bye Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

[woohoo]

bye bye Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

If they survive by forcing customers to pay more for the competition then perhaps they should not survive. If we can't compete on cheapness then we need to compete on quality and high tec.

[NigelJK]

As I thought, no actual blocks then, just tariffs. And for the record I don't bother with any of the mainstream news outlets they all have their own agenda.