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The Times:
The force of gravity on Britain's trade

17 January 2019

Claiming that manufacturing is protected in the EU is far more contentious. Mr Minford makes his case by taking an OECD databank of the prices of manufactured products around the world. He adjusts them for transport and distribution costs and concludes that the prices of manufactured products in the EU are 10 per cent above the world price.

But economists at the LSE argue that Mr Minford made no allowance for differences in quality among the manufactured goods being considered (Economists for Brexit: A Critique, by Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and John Van Reenen).