Northern Ireland business call for extra time to be ready for the changes coming to trade under the protocol.
I don't see any sign the UK government ministers are aware of the magnitude of changes to trade coming in January - too used to a single market. ft.com/content/aedc4a…
I don't see any sign the UK government ministers are aware of the magnitude of changes to trade coming in January - too used to a single market. ft.com/content/aedc4a…
Just 'border checks' tends to understate that goods could easily be stuck and people not have the right approvals to proceed. Just ask countries from outside the single market who send goods to the EU...
Also worth remembering no-deal with the EU would mean no deal also with Turkey, and at best limited deals with Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. That's over 50% of UK trade and over 50% of UK manufacturing exports subject to increased trade barriers.
Simple maths - applying average 5% tariffs to 50% of our goods trade (plus possibly the same again in extra non tariff barriers) is going to have a greater impact than reducing average 3.5% tariffs (plus at best minor non tariff barrier reductions) for 16%. EU v US trade.
