A flood of imports
The reason is that the steel was fabricated in Belgium and imported by a Dutch contractor.
This blow to the British steel industry will doubtless assist the agency to balance its books, but any purported “saving” is at the expense of our industrial base. It begs the question why, if a Government agency is not prepared to invest in British industry, should anyone else?
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Hide AdApropos John Morris’ letter “Market vision” (Gazette, April 4), about the use of local contractors, we should at least be grateful that the Dutch contractor had the foresight to use the port of Littlehampton in preference to Shoreham harbour, which seems to have usurped the aggregates trade from which Littlehampton previously benefited.
K. W. Grimes
Broadmark Avenue
Rustington