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28 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Another tacit way of demonstrating how dependent UK is on (food) imports from EU & EU driver accompanied hauliers ..can't afford to jeopardise that "border facilitation" priority of EU exports (& EU customs transit smugglers)
flow over compliance..
esp in peak "Hungry Gap" month

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
29 Mar
It must be clear to all now that UK Gov desperate for an American trade deal...any deal...priority to politically grandstand something no matter how relative little balance on market access for UK businesses vs US businesses on UK market.
Why is more not done to expose this?
The greater the accommodating of USA standards the greater the barriers will remain on EU trade and on that trade from GB to NI.
Help GB exporters (esp food/horticulture) & alleviate the NIP by aligning to EU/EEA/present UK (SPS) standards it reduces chance of a quick USA deal.
But which is more important to *UK* businesses/livelihoods/jobs?
Put another way what are the chances of Canadian or Mexican businesses (Canada or Mexico even going as far as leaving NAFTA) aligning more to EU/EEA (UK) standards instead of the USA standards on *their* doorstep?
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
29 Mar
“We’ve been sold a dud,” Sharon da Costa, the managing director of Fighting Film said. “If it weren’t for Covid, people would be shouting from the rooftops.”
Any excuse?
(& again UK "sold" a "Canada/Australia" deal outside the CU&SM: these procedures always guaranteed from then)
Mike Cherry, the FSB’s chairman, said smaller businesses faced “incredibly demanding, unfamiliar paperwork”.
... “what we hoped would prove to be teething problems are in danger of becoming permanent, systemic ones".

WTF!! Another that should be sacked
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
From a friend: verifying "senior" level(s) incompetence

"I was at FSB policy meetings at HQ discussing impact of leaving the EU. It was seen as a ‘political position’ rather than a fundamental legislative change to doing business and one of the reasons I left the committee.....
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
22 Mar
You can't...but again I forecast this so very long ago. You have driver accompanied RoRo (roll on roll off ..the ferries) loads from consignor to consignee. Quickest and most most efficient.
Critical for time sensitive/perishables.
But also LoLo (lift on lift off..the ferries)
Trailers are not actually lifted on/off but *shunted* on/off with 'shunts' @MarkHazard2020..that is trailer is dropped one side by the driver and picked up the other side of the crossing by another driver. You need lots of holding space for dropped trailers & shunts/shunt drivers
It's not as quick or as efficient on ferry loading as driver accompanied RoRO..Dover & Holyhead very much strict RoRo ports with no space here for even RoRo life outside the SM&CU (hence the need for ICDs not built with need to push back full import esp SPS controls even further)
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
18 Mar
Tweeted about Charter Airlines before but this report just appeared in Loadstar.
Basically it's more of the UK Gov policy to effectively favour EU businesses (on UK market) over UK businesses.

In reality it's more of the UK Gov fear of exposing UK needs EU more than EU needs UK
“That [Brexit] deal has been the worst of both worlds as it has increased competition in our domestic markets while cutting us off from Europe – that notion of ‘taking back control’ went out the window,” Mr Green said.
“We are not against competition, but what we have here is not competition, it is an uneven playing field – if you’re a UK company, you’re screwed.” @rdanielkelemen @YorksBylines
theloadstar.com/uk-charter-air…
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
17 Mar
@donnafordyce CEO @SeafoodScotland
said " it is frustrating that the export market wasn’t granted same. We've been begging UK Gov for this for months so were somewhat baffled by the decision to allow it for imports but not vice versa" 
Why are people even in business so stupid?
1/ there *was* the opportunity to give grace period to UK export and UK import (EU export) with a *bilateral* agreed transition extension. UK turned it down last June meaning 2/ each market defaults to determining what is imported onto its market by its own now seperate rules.
EU was ready to legally implement its rules & controls under the TCA treaty on 1/1/21 but UK wasn't ..and still isn't...and won't be until 2022.. What is so "baffling" ?
No country has the gift to determine whether its *exports" are permitted onto another's market
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
16 Mar
As I have tweeted countless times but the MSM news channels never seem to pick up on.
Shipments from GB to NI are logistically/customs/SPS wise the same as GB to ROI/whole EU.
They are equally moving across the EU customs & regulatory/SPS compliance border.
Yet UK Gov wants people to simultaneously believe it's a huge logistical issue (GB to NI)
and not an issue (GB to EU).
The *exact* same issues are occuring. So instead of Orwellian "Doublespeak" which is it?
A big problem or not a problem?
It is of course fact that *both* are equally decimating or destructive to GB consignor & NI & EU consignee. .

As it would be again for NI to GB and EU to GB shipments but for political priorities (esp NI to GB) and not having the capacity, by a long way, to do so (esp EU to GB)
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