I remember from my youth "Buy British" plastic bags with a Union Jack on them that were made in Hong Kong. More recently my daughters wanted some Union Jack bunting,flags,hats,flipflops,.They came back from town with 3 carrier bags full.I was expecting a £50-£60 bill but it came to £8 as they had gone to poundland....all Chinese imports. I try to only buy British meat and we source the majority of our fruit and veg locally (apart from the exotic). I work in the construction industry and value engineered out Swedish sanitary ware,French suspended ceilings.The Iron fittings and locks have to be Swedish(Abaloy)so we couldn't change these.It is the dumb Architects who spec all this.This is for a major Water company. We were also forced to use an Italian company to do the steel spall plates on MOD installations which I know for a fact was sourced from Turkey.(A spall plate is the inner lining to bomb proof concrete covered structures).I also think the Italian company was sponsored by the Italian government....too much info but we don't seem to be protecting our own industries.