Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
Calais will become the new Princess Street; the day trips from Dover and Harwich will come back as people flock to 'Le Kilting'

I doubt that EU regulation would allow it.
I don't agree. I think it is possible to regulate what is imported into a nation, though of course some people will always violate the law if the product is valuable enough (like the market in banned ivory etc).

I don't think the tourists who pack the Royal Mile and Princes Street have come there with the express purpose of buying Pakistani bagpipes and Indian kilts:
"Oh my goodness! Where are all the Pakistani and Indian items I intended on buying?! For my next holiday I will go to a country where I can buy these!" (Surprised tourist on the Royal Mile.)

These tourists, in the old days, bought Scottish-made kilts and sporrans and bagpipes because they were the only ones being sold in the shops in Scotland and if they are once again the only ones being sold the tourists will buy them again.

About the EU, I don't understand why the EU would protect imports from non-EU nations. I would think the opposite. By the way, the EU already does protect local production of other sorts of products according to an article I read.