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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
@vivamjm
Oct 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I sometimes hesitate to tweet for "fear" of repeating myself too much....BUT...I feel the need !!!
There are 145,000 UK businesses that will need to complete customs formalities for the first time on 1/1.
There will be an additional approx 230m customs declarations a year...
Needing that approx additional 50,000 customs staff (& 5000 customs officers) . It takes at least (with continued supervision) a year (I'm being optimistic) to train an individual to handle relative routine inquiries given complexity of customs entries/correct accompanying dox
esp on SPS.

Without long extended continued "transition", it is *impossible* (along with needed interfaced IT processes & necessary oganised infrastuctue/processing sites) for whole UK (not just NI) to be customs capacity ready for 1/1
(or even 1/7 for that matter IMO)

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Feb 1
The disgusting Tory MP does not really give a shit & doesn't know her own Gov. rules. The foreign spouse cannot claim any state benefits & pays for NHS as a large up front payment (inc visa about 4 grand tot? for 1st of 2 visas needed of 2.5 years each) @paperghost Thread
@alexinlaw @StevePeers @ColinYeo1 @SimonFRCox @ZoeJardiniere His/her (foreign spouse) earnings don't count even if meeting min earnings threshold. If living abroad UK spouse must show 6 months earnings of 29,000 pa (38,700 pa next year) alone in UK before foreign spouse can apply
@ReuniteDivFamil Other absurd rules are if you (UK spouse) earn 29,000 pa & rent a property in central London your foreign spouse qualifies for visa, BUT if you earn 28,500 pa & own property in rural Wales your foreign spouse doesn't. All designed to keep Brits exiled @calvert_3
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Jan 1
Once again for the Brexit liars & dummies 
1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory.
If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border
2/ If you want to stop another from being too protectionist & charging you whatever tariff they wish to keep you out of their territory, you join the WTO, which agrees maximum tariff schedules between its members.
There are 163 members, but not all countries of the world are
(Quick quiz: which sizeable countries are not members of the WTO?)
All countries (185) apart from a few tiny nations are WCO members
(to ensure consistency & harmony on commodity codes when trading)
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Dec 25, 2023
Pre-Brexit A N Other paid the relevant tariffs on his parts from China before finishing the *British* product & sending onto his (fellow EU member) buyers completely free of all other costs apart from transport & CMR (despatch & delivery) note & invoice. . 1/5
..all for a nice profit & orders allowing employment of 15 staff.
Post-Brexit he paid these same tariffs on entry to UK *but now had to pay them again on behalf of his EU buyers* who will not pay them, as they will instead find new suppliers inside the EU (SM/CU) borders. 2/5
"What happened to "tariff free?" you might ask? Again it is our old friend, "Rules of Origin" (I have explained many times what RoO destructively means to so many - inc on car batteries -so forgive me if I do not do so again here today).
3/5
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Nov 6, 2023
“Stock-out” is (not) a new phrase for me, but the meaning is obvious – it is just supermarket shorthand for being out of stock. And when a supermarket is out of stock, the result is empty or partially empty shelves. These are being seen once again in UK supermarkets....
..and images of them are being shared on social media. And it is worth stating once again that there is a simple reason why stock-outs happen more than they used to: Brexit. Leaving the EU has seriously stymied the UK’s food importation and distribution sector.
Shane Brennan is head of the Cold Chain Federation, the industry that transports and stores perishable foods across the country. As he told me: “One of the reasons why you see stock-outs on supermarket shelves is that .....
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Jul 22, 2023
Man leaves club
Man loses all the benefits of club membership
Man is angry, moans & whines about his former club "punishing" him for no longer giving him these benefits
Man is angry they are no longer even concerned about his better interests outside the club
Silly, ignorant twat
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Profile picture
Jul 19, 2023
Brexiters are doing all I predicted they would. Customs & regulatory border processes (UK chose to resurrect both.. & add 'ss' processes in too) *constrict* throughput at extra cost & bureaceacy. This is fact. How do you mask this? You have the processes further back "upsteam"
However, by making the processes further "upstream" inc building holding areas away from port/Tunnel area control, the results are the same. Extra costs & delays to consignee orders (impossible for smaller former groupage) being fulfilled means the future orders simply fall away
Ferry & Tunnel train schedules are reduced in number to reflect longer processing time (not commercially viable to maintain more frequent schedules with half empty departures) & falling away traffic. In turn this increases costs further. It is a spiral downwards
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