An interesting piece from the FT (anti Brexit):

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news...cid=spartanntp

The Nissan UK boss is well known for his empty threats (remember the Euro?) but I didn't expect this with the Japanese PM saying he wants the UK to remain in the Single Market or they would start shifting into another EU country. Here we have Nissan finding their sales in the rest of the EU not worth staying in the case of a harder Brexit where tariffs are applied. They would also seek to poach business from those who remained in the EU by driving up UK car sales.

Plants in Barcelona and France would be hit or closed for this. It would hit the German car market too which will be concerning since Germany has been working hard to stay out of recession through most of 2019.

A question raised now is whether Nissan would see a bigger increase in profits by leaving their EU market and poaching UK car sales? It also raises questions over a shift in tactics by Japan.

I still think tariffs will be dropped though as it's just good business sense for both sides. The negotiations are just starting so we will hear the nonsense hard stance stuff from both sides just as we did 3 1/2 years ago.