Fourth, there may be a pending win that’s just a touch bigger. The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union back in 2016 but didn’t actually pull the plug until 2020, and it wasn’t until 2021 that London realized it hadn’t planned for the aftermath. Like, at all. The continental Europeans have shown no propensity to extend the Brits any concessions, and Britain on its own just isn’t big or stable or diversified enough to matter. But add the United Kingdom and its sophisticated first-world manufacturing capacity to the NAFTA grouping and the math changes significantly. Extending
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