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14 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Okay time for a beach side beer ...just a quick note

UK has been part of a Single (expanding) internal borders Market for nearly *30* years.
& part of a Customs (expanding) Union for nearly *50* years.
To reverse that lack of capacity to reflect that lack of operational/customs/
infrastructure/space/"50,000" experienced staff dissipated away/IT support, demand was *always* going to be mammoth task at mammoth cost. eg Channel Tunnel was actually conceived of & built with the Single Market (inside a Customs Union) in mind...so it too didn't factor in space
needed for life outside it. France has been lucky: Calais port & Coquelles do have needed space for UK's self harming choice
EU nations (& Gib) haven't been hampered by a narrative of "opportunities"/trying to hide visible costs. & have duly prepped with loud necessary *warnings*
Nor by the unique trying to square a circle circumstances in Ireland (unless both remaining in EEA and *a* Customs Union)
Question everyone shld ask is why the *whole* establishment (oppositon & MSM) have not conveyed this sufficiently to the (*still* mostly) unawares UK public?
All of this mammoth cost "invested" (badly to date) to disadvantage *UK* businesses & suppliers (even *especially* so internally within the UK)

....and to make imports more costly, but yet reduced in volumes/choice and in their speed of delivery.
*Facts*

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
13 Nov
KA-BOOM

"Freight forwarders are beginning to withdraw operations from Northern Ireland amid increasing concern about the capability of UK customs systems to handle dual-tariff procedures post-Brexit.
Agency Sector Management (ASM) chairman Peter MacSwiney told The Loadstar two of his largest customers had informed him they'd be relocating to the Republic of Ireland after the UK leaves the European Union on 1 January.“They said they would not be dealing with Northern Ireland
because of the complexity of moving goods,” said Mr MacSwiney.
“I think it’s indicative of how business will respond to the chaos surrounding the transition, and we will likely see more move out before this is over, because it is an area lacking customs experience and skillsets –
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
12 Nov
THIS should be daily news ...RHA have used terms "impossible" "disaster area" (a deal/any FTA) or "disaster area with rocket boosters" (no deal) for a very long time now...
BUT always the "news" moves on next day.
Not enough have taken enough notice from those of us that "*know*
Out of the Customs Union & out of the Single Market (& safety/security zone)...without the ports/infrastructure/customs experience capacity/supply to meet new demands (GB/NI a special doozy)
*is* going to decimate/destroy many UK businesses esp SMEs..& supply chains @IanKingSky
the level of insightful questoning is appalling...
of course when freight needs to move across a customs AND a regulatory/SPS border (& a safety/security border) it is going to fucking cost more...
Costs WILL *rise* to the consumer and choice/volumes WILL *fall* ....
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
11 Nov
This is the sort of BS one expects from @ShankerASingham and his idiot cohorts, which I examined back in 2018 when the idea of the “Smart Border 2.0” was being touted.
It was precisely then that a certain “customs expert”, Dr Lars Karlsson @CapacityNow was suggesting that:
“Checks under sanitary rules, a key regulatory area for agricultural trade, could be covered under the trusted trader arrangements”.
As I remarked at the time, though, the man clearly had no knowledge of non-customs systems.
The AEO “trusted trader” certification to which he referred was (& is) a customs system and has no bearing on sanitary or phytosanitary issues.
Crucially, the EU does not operate a preferential access system to BIPs (now BCPs) and under WTO rules, they are required to give access
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
10 Nov
Oh my UK.....my head is becoming very frazzled now at what you are going to volunteer on top of already grinding supply chains (and peak Covid)

theloadstar.com/no-respite-for…
Container shipments from Asia to the UK continue to be subject to “unprecedented” delays and significant additional costs.“It’s as bad as you hear, possibly worse,” Ryan Clark director and co-owner of UK-based Westbound Logistics, told The Loadstar today.
“Space is still an issue, as are ever-increasing rates,” said Mr Clark,“
We are constantly finding ourselves apologising to customers. If it’s not rollings, space problems or rate increases, it’s a berthing delay or haulage issue,” he said.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
10 Nov
I confess I don't know so much about Portsmouth or Plymouth (tweeted on Dover/Holyhead as the RoRo ports I know about most extensively...but also East Yorks/Lincolnshire & Liverpool/Feixstowe from also previous experience)...
BUT of course *all* will be adversely impacted
"Portsmouth’s leader, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, tells me his anxieties. His council owns the thriving port, which imports 65% of Britain’s bananas, 9,000 racehorses and turbine blades from the Isle of Wight, and sees hundreds of lorries a day.
But there’s only room for 15 trucks between the motorway and the dock, and the government has warned him that up to 70% of companies aren’t ready. “We know 50% don’t speak English, so explaining is hard.”
The slightest delay means drivers have to stop and sleep.
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
10 Nov
What annoys me most is how simple things could have been/be explained to the British people by the opposition & media 

Leaving the customs union causes an *automatic* (costly red tape) customs duties (policed) border
Leaving the single market causes an *automatic* (costly red tape) regulated (policed) standards border

These returned automatic "policed" border checkpoints across Ireland all agree could not (because of the GFA) happen.

Withdrawal agreement was designed as a stand alone treaty
*regardless* of the future trading relationship, to prevent any side using this sensitive border (& EU citizens) as an amoral bargaining chip.
If no future agreement agreed, then the original WA *agreed* had the default position of keeping all of UK inc NI in the customs union
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