It won't resolve all issues (ATA carnets; RoO & customs decs themselves) but UK should undoubtedly join (ironically rejoin) EFTA & expand the TCA
into being a new pillar of the EEA/Single Market?? So much pain to get back there (& needs to be accountability for it)...but..Thread
Undoubtedly again the NIP will be a lot easier to negotiate with *all* of the UK part of the Single Market (even if just for goods but clearly better with all 4 freedoms)
Maybe too the TCA can be expanded to include some CU benefits? @EFTA4UK ?
If not UK needs modern fully integrated with (CDS) customs IT systems instead of 35 year old CHIEF & enough adequately trained personnel combined with fit-for-purpose infrastructure.
As it is UK services here to be overwhelmed...unless the smugglers charter is extended.
On RoO, I do remember we often used to advise clients to pay the tariffs (their choice of course) as cheaper alternative to proving RoO to obtain their CoO ..which could then still be subject to individual customs officer discretion.
Ironically quicker & easier to pay the tariffs
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As the row over the Northern Ireland protocol threatens to become a full-blown diplomatic crisis between the UK and EU, there are new industry warnings that UK supply chains face chaos. Industry wants government to postpone the 1 April implementation of phase 2 border checks.
As part of its 3-phase introduction of border checks on EU imports, UK border officials are set to begin requesting sanitary and phytosanitary paperwork for animal & plant imports next month. However, with the pandemic having floored the hospitality sector, industry associations
and sources have warned of “calamity” if there is no delay to phase 2. MD of Morgan Cargo Herman Bosman said he and his team were “very concerned” about the new checks and phytosanitary inspections. He said: “During many discussions with EU growers, transporters and exporters,
It (NY Times) wrote of the firm of Teal & Mackrill in Hull, which makes paints for special applications, like fishing trawlers & factory floors. In a “little-noticed consequence of the new Brexit trade deal”, this paper said, “the company is facing real concerns about its future
Owner Geoff Mackril said that growing British regulatory burdens on chemicals may mean that eventually he would not be able to obtain some of the additives that make his paints distinctive. “The worry is that some of those materials that we use”, he said, “may become unavailable
because of those costs”.
..if spread across Britain’s £33 bn a year chemical industry, with BASF estimating that UK REACH could cost the company £70 million. turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/brexit/br…
"I think he comes into his own, the prime minister, with his PR, & if anybody can sell to the British public 'buy red mullet, buy John Dory, buy grey mullet', then I think he will have a darn good go," she told BBC SW political editor Martyn Oates."
Forget he & his Gov lied/lies
Altogether it tells me what a superlative prize the GB public is to the worst conniving, inept, crooked, self serving "government" imaginable... & now in office.
As long as it is headed up by a an outright lying but "funny" clown they can continue manipulating & abusing
the malleable population against its better interests, despite the warnings from (us) 'mere' frontline/experienced experts always becoming fact.
These "freeport" "Private Enterprise" SEZ *Charter Cities* are thus now guaranteed as the "saviour" to a fucked Single Market economy
Looking back to a year ago when old colleagues & I got together in Leeds to discuss a couple of years making hay swansong...have to wonder again if we did right thing by abandoning plans to Covid: we were sure UK would request transition extension as was "obvious" it'd be needed.
We started as a small freight forwarding company that grew to specialise in direct *groupage* services to the (pre-EU) Eastern European countries...esp Poland & Czech/Slovakia.
The 'big boys' were trans-shipping via Austria while we struck deals with Polish & Czech/Slovakia
hauliers/bonded w'house clearance agents & UK owner-drivers. At our 2003 peak we were getting business from across the UK with faxes coming in showing multiple sub-contracted agents all taking a cut. Funny..
We of course suffered after 2004 despite the *floods of extra traffic*
Again not "new" rules.
And it seems yet more not understanding.
Why? @SamanthaMalin
Each member state of the EU/EEA (inc UK when a member) & EFTA/EEA has its own individual immigration rules for *non* EEA citizens.
By joining the EU or EEA (or bilateral Swiss & EU agreement) you agree to giving reciprocal freedom of movement rights to each participating/member state. What UK students are now being subjected to is each country's own sovereign *not* "new" immigration policy .
For comparison it would be like if eg France had left the EU with UK staying a member state
and then France approaching UK (any member state) to change *its* whole immigration policy to better accommodate French citizens or insert a clause to legally discriminate in their favour
POLICE from more than 30 constabularies all over Britain - including Cheshire - have been redeployed to Kent to help the authorities manage Brexit traffic chaos, it has emerged.
At the same time, it underlined that the costs of calling on other forces would be met by the government. i.e. you the taxpayer warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19104031.…