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EarlG

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2. Most of the steel companies in the UK

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Thu May 8, 2025, 02:15 PM

May 8

are owned by Indian or Chinese multinationals, including “British Steel.”

Meanwhile, the Brits do not generally import American cars because they’re too big and too fuel inefficient. And what little there is left of the British car manufacturing industry is also mostly owned by foreign multinationals.

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