Goods should be marked with country of manufacture in post-Brexit trade - Yorkshire Post Letters

I SYMPATHISE with Richard Bird buying only UK-printed Christmas cards (The Yorkshire Post, December 2).

Where possible I’ll buy UK-made and especially Yorkshire-made goods in preference to others but it is usually difficult.

In general I find larger chains more likely to have stock made abroad than local firms. The only website I’ve seen advising where to Buy British products is a decidedly home grown effort.

In November I buy a Yorkshire scenes calendar to send abroad. Yet most are printed in China, a repressive country I won’t do business with except through necessity.

The National Railway Museum does pleasant historic railway poster calendars, but they are printed in TR, wherever that is.

Many goods don’t have country of manufacture marked and the EU is notably slack on identifying countries of origin correctly. Surely a chance for the UK Government to insist on correct identification of country of origin post Brexit.

Yet such a simple measure seems far from their minds.

The promises of Boris Johnson et al in the Leave campaign now look like the empty bombast they always were.

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