Apparently M Gove mentioned that he hopes some of the challenges that the JC has been tasked with will be resolved this week... Let's hope he's right although not much work can be done in 3 weeks at the end of December.
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700 ppl recruited and trained by French customs. Deployed across ports, airports and train terminals.
Trials, operational guides, rehearsals and "orchestrated logistics sequences"
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What I really liked is that throughout the process they worked with the Eurotunnel, ferry operators and ports to understand the current process and use the waiting time that's already there to minimise the impact on lead times and "anticipate" formalities.
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As someone who speaks to, trains and advises companies on getting ready for Brexit I just want to say that this by @jdportes and @anandMenon1 is absolutely spot on!
Under normal circumstances, we all use mental shortcuts when speaking about incredibly technical matters to a non-technical audience but this is not what's happening here.
👇and the language used by many politicians is misleading for firms
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It matters now more than ever because of how little time we've got left to prepare.
In Jan companies won't need telling that friction is coming cause they will be able to see it when their goods are turned away from the border or when their agent increases fees.
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Some, like prices going up or border disruptions, might.
But it is also likely to disproportionately negatively affect some sectors and regions.
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And here the immediate impact can be very different from the long term one.
The immediate one being the first few months (up to a year) of general confusions and realisation of all the additional costs and the loss of various possibilities.
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I agree. S&S declarations are an interesting one cause I honestly can't understand why (to my knowledge) we did not ask for a waiver similar to what NO & CH have.
A waiver would also make the Irish Sea border a lot simpler.
Recently @pmdfoster prompted me to check the agreements to see if the S&S declarations waiver was related to Single Market commitments or anything else that could make it impossible for the UK and the EU to agree on one.
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This is what the Norwegian customs says about this wavier
An important point to make - the EU is applying full procedures to UK goods as of 1 Jan cause that is what it’s obliged to do under international rules.
The EU shares borders with countries with a much closer economic relationship than the one we'll likely to end up with – why should goods from these countries be subject to full customs and other border procedures and goods from the UK not?
(WTO Art I) 👇
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I appreciate we never expected them to apply these rules to US, but to be fair we've known for 4 years that "we've got to be ready for the requirements that they have been clear apply to all third countries.”
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