end of frictionless trade with European Union nations confirmed for next January, businesses told to prepare for customs, agrifood, safety regulatory formalities and checks...
Official release from Gove speech today - Government tells freight/ traders to get customs numbers etc - facilitations originally identified for No Deal now required full stop. gov.uk/government/new…
As a result of this, therefore, you’d expect the diggers in creating new physical checks facilities at all the cross Channel entry points into the UK, including Chunnel, new computer facilities, many hundreds more customs agents, thousands more agents, mass recruitment of vets...
Can’t see why you’d have adverts telling businesses on a Sunday that Brexit “could lead to new arrangements for trade travel and business” - ie may or may not - and then announce they definitely will the next day. 
Response from British Retail consortium, pretty icy and rather sceptical:
“Not enough to announce checks... must see plans now as to how this will be possible in practice, or it will be consumers who suffer on 1st Jan 2021”.
“Not enough to announce checks... must see plans now as to how this will be possible in practice, or it will be consumers who suffer on 1st Jan 2021”.
BRC lists the following checks that in theory willl require forms, currently not required on EU trade...
Rules of origin,
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS),
VAT,
customs,
safety and security,
excise,
transit,
export health certificate...
Rules of origin,
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS),
VAT,
customs,
safety and security,
excise,
transit,
export health certificate...
Freight trade association v interesting thread on what Govt might try to negotiate to lessen increase in red tape for goods trade with continent... safety & security agreement, veterinary agreement... but where are agents, vets, diggers, planning apps,
Campaigning in the red wall seats just ahead of the election, the PM promised car workers that his Brexit deal would “ completely protect” the car industry and “keep supply chains intact”... with “complete equivalence”
Though not true to say, as some have that the whole Govt guaranteed no checks as a result of new Brexit deal - Chancellor in November acknowledged, eventually, in an interview with me for 10 O clock news that there would be “changes”:
