“Simon Spurrell said he has lost 20% of his sales overnight after discovering he needed to provide a £180 health certificate on retail orders to consumers in the EU, including those buying personal gift packs of his award-winning wax-wrapped cheese worth £25 or £30.”
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“He says he had hoped to take part in the ‘sunny uplands’ promised by the government post-Brexit but has instead seen the viability of his online retail come to a ‘dead stop’.”
“To save his business he will now have to switch a £1m investment he was planning to make in a new distribution centre in Macclesfield to the EU, with the loss of 20 jobs and tax revenue to the UK.”
“He knew he’d need customs decls & health certs signed by vets to get cheese into EU after 1 Jan, & has successfully been getting pallets to wholesale customers. But what he hadn’t anticipated was the requirement for health certs to accompany online orders from private customers”
“Spurrell’s Cheshire cheese company in Macclesfield and Hartington Creamery in Derbyshire turn over more than £4.3m a year and employ 25 people, and he planned to double staff numbers with a new fulfilment centre in March.”
“John Arbon Textiles in Devon was told by courier co that its knitting wool, spun from local sheep fibres, wd no longer be accepted with hauliers now trying to mitigate risk of 1 package in their lorry causing their entire load to be delayed because they’re missing a health cert”
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