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20-Jul-22, 22:20
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

Can Food Tariff Cuts Really Put A Dent In Inflation? - A Very Small One Maybe




Why do we have tariffs on bananas? So asked prime minister Boris Johnson last month, first during a 9 June speech in Blackpool and then three weeks later while in Madrid for a Nato summit. By cutting "food tariffs we don't need", the government could put a dent in what was already the highest consumer price inflation in four decades, Johnson claimed, speaking in the Spanish capital a week-and-a-half before his eventual defenestration. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/17311)]