From a Freight Forwarding friend
"27 days into Brexit and DHL have suspended services to Germany to sales partners & resellers, UPS have suspended all international services to resellers, Time Definite Express hasn’t handled one shipment since Brexit due to customs complexities
Sovereign have stopped their services due to customs complexities, Ontour now provide a 3-5 day transit and the prices have increased by 50%, dedicated vehicles are hard to find, the transit times are now 2 days due to customs complexities, DSV are now offering a *8 day* transit.
Shipments are being randomly held and customs in Italy are holding shipments up to 3 weeks for inspection. I get complaint on a daily basis from my clients about VAT payments, delays and the deterioration in services. Brexit is destroying businesses and ...
this is just only going to get worse. EORI numbers, HS codes, origins, shipping invoices, declarations, customs docs and incoterms. Jobs use to take minutes to arrange and now they can take hours (for the same profit). There are absolutely no benefits to Brexit
UK Government has destroyed our economy.
As you said, we’ve imposed sanctions on ourselves!"
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SPS standards inspections on t'other hand !
& yes as Anna says not where customs friction is..that's the processes themselves from being *outside* a customs *& standards* territory. Legal declarations & compliance proofs in leaving one territory to enter another across a "border"
A day of yet more Groundhog Day frustations so far ..
I don't necessarily include Mr Vidigal here but this "insight" was announced last June by UK Gov
(in a desperate unilaterally made "solution" to not having to ask for Transition extension).
Said at the time the priorty of "border facilitation" ("flow over compliance") sold as a help for UK businesses with cross party "approval"
..was a euphemism for *smugglers charter" ..and it still wouldn't work if it was not (lorry back-loading) reciprocal.
It was a tacit recognition that UK wouldn't be ready for life outside CU&SM but political face was prioritised. UK won't be ready by (1/4 & esp) 1/7 either. Expect further extensions of UK "smugglers charter".IF legal..& IF get that far before already customs capacity overwhelmed
Without wishing to labour basic point once again too much. When I joined the Freight Forwarding/Customs industry in 1985 supply of ports/infrastructure/tech support (telex & then fax 🙄)/*experience* roughly met demand. As an older guy neared retirement we'd look to find a newbie
to train up surrounded by a tiered level of experienced staff to supervise. The introduction of the Single Market on top of an improving admin streamlined expanding Customs Union meant as the older generations dissipated away there was no longer the need to find so many newbies
The loss of a need for customs clearances; painstakingly looking to qualify under rules of origin with a cert of origin; having to certify standards of produce to ship meant the volumes of trade multiplied exponentially esp in the 2000s. It had become progressively easier for any
It might be worse than "economists warned about" but not worse than we mere (ex) Freight Fowarding/Customs Agents tried to warn of....Read
"The reality of Brexit is much, much worse than we economists warned about. It goes like this. The British economy is starting to shut down
like a heart attack. Europe is simply stopping sending goods to Britain, and Britain to Europe.
The costs involved have soared from “nothing” to “impossible.” Nobody’s had to fill out customs/SPS forms and declarations in these places for over thirty years.
since then, economies have changed. It’s not so easy to declare where a thing was “made” or if it ever touched this kind of raw material or that or what its intended use is The only option is to pay a fortune to someone who can. Faced with mountains of paperwork for each shipment
EU never going to reciprocate UK (WTO illegal) 6 months "border facilitation" *smugglers charter* esp when transition extension declined. NI bound by Johnson's 2019 "victory" of swinging SM/SPS border for goods/food & UCC from across IRL to between GB & NI @LanceForman@IndBusNet
The reason for 6 months "border facilitation" is not because of UK generousity..but simply because UK is not ready/does not have the experienced customs capacity nor regulatory capacity for present volumes of trade outside the Customs Union & Single Market @LanceForman@IndBusNet
"Standard" road transit packages from UK to EU are suffering big delays. Services that took 1-3 days in 2020 are often taking 2 weeks to be delivered, and that is after numerous calls to customer services and investigations; or they are simply disappearing off all radar..
These are not coronavirus issues, UPS is stating publicly to their customers that these are "due to BREXIT related disruption." UPS is clearly one of the top couriers and I didn't experience one lost package over many years of service from them shipping into the EU27, previously
question is whether packages from other non-EU countries are ALSO suffering delays?
(I'd suggest no: supply there meets demand)
WHAT is causing these delays for UK-specific exports?
(I'd suggest lack of capacity/supply of relevant customs experience & IT systems) @gideon_