One successful British export to the United States is journalists. They don't attract any tariffs under World Trade Organisation rules.
The latest person to be dispatched westwards is Emma Tucker, who is swapping the editor's chair at the Sunday Times for that at the Wall Street Journal. Both titles are owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Though not an experienced financial journalist, she has her admirers in Fleet Street, and may bring a lighter touch to a business newspaper that can still be rather stodgy.
