This wonderful trade deal with China....
A few years back the Canton Fair was renamed the Chinese Import and Export Fair. At the same time they had part of a hall devoted to imported products,relative to the export part it was probably less than 1%.
There was an English guy showing a skateboard with a clever suspension that allowed it to flip yet land pretty square,he was hoping to sell the idea to a chinese manufacturer as a joint venture.
I asked him was he worried about it being 'ripped off',the site of the chinese all taking high res photos of it didnt seem to bother him because he had a design patent on it.....hehe!!!!!!
I took a design for a hydraulic handbrake to China,it had a clever lock mechanism,last time I went to the Fair I counted 28 booths that had 'ripped off' the handbrake,available in all the colours.
Trade is a 2-way street,the chinese are better at it than we are,remember that Mr Liam Fox when you open up our underfinanced/overpaid industries to the might of the chinese manufacturing,without any EU protection.
KudosDave