Breaking free of Brussels bureaucracy was meant to herald a bonfire of red tape for Britain. In the first 100 days of Brexit, the only thing many businesses burned was money. Customs checks, paperwork & border delays since the U.K. completed its withdrawal from the European Union
are sucking cash and time out of firms from big-name retailers to small family-owned businesses. Companies, which warned for years that this would happen, take no pleasure in saying โwe told you so,โ but the frustration is clear as they grapple with the long-term reality.
For many businesses on tight margins, every pound spent on documentation means less for wages, hiring and investment. While the impact will be far less dramatic than the short-term shock of the Covid-19 lockdowns, over time it will add up, hobbling the economy and
For the last 5 years I have tried to convey how shocked I was and what it would devastatingly mean to leave the EU (SM&CU) after nearly 5 decades part of it & its expansion.
Maybe the best way is to say both customs free internal markets will turn in on themselves much more.
However the EU customs free internal market (inc NI) is much bigger than the GB (UK minus NI) customs free internal market.
Guess which of the two is going to be much more internally self sufficient
& which one will continue to need the other more ?..
Only now, to UK's further detriment, the continental (& Irish) purchases for GB consumers will be (customs & regulatory) more expensive; rarer; more limited in choice & with longer delivery schedules.
I'd suggest EU holidays will be pretty much (back to the early 1970s) same ๐
Without Covid-19 this would be all over the newspapersโ Mr Lord says, adding that he feels the โmedia is so dishonest in telling the story, in not reporting that violence in Ireland is also down to Brexit.โ Mr Lords fears that โthis is just the beginning and costs will go up.
This is incredibly inflationary, with Brexit-related price increases in shipping, transport, etc., it is not hitting yet.โ
He adds that another problem for many businesses will be the end of mixed loads and multiple drops as there is no more groupage
UK shippers can no longer do multiple drops in the EU under rules for third countries).
Meanwhile, Aztec Oils โhave had to now employ two extra people just to handle the administrative burden being placed upon us and are struggling to get to grips with the government NES
All adding to make GB the new (trading model at least) DDR of Europe...
Worse than back to the early 1970s UK..
at least back then all other major Western European economies faced each other's customs & regulatory intra-European trade barriers!!
โItโs a *just-in-time industry*; you canโt send mussels on long journeys and you cannot airfreight the volumes we deal with, which is why we had to depurate them in the Netherlands, closer to final market.โ
Last week, Mr Eustice suggested to a select committee meeting of MPs that the EC was to blame, claiming it had changed its rules in February in a โmanner than basically ends the tradeโ.
However, documents provided by Defra appeared to show this was not the case,
the department confirming to UK businesses in December that exports of Class B LBMs were prohibited by EU law. But Defraโs head of aquatic animal health policy, Birgit Oidtmann, said in 2019 that, under a no-deal โUK mussel producers will still be able to export
1/ countries have market standardsย 2/ countries may open their market to outsiders but they must meet their standards. This requires border controls as outsiders are outside the reach of the importing country's authority.This requires a lot of experienced staff and infrastructure
inspection holding sheds etc to ensure compliance before releasing onto the market. 3/ countries that do this will also encourage or discourage their businesses buying from outsiders by applying taxes on what they bring into the country.
If a member of the WTO there'll be a limit as to how much they can discourage with a members' agreed ceiling on the tax. This to prevent the trade wars of history. Tax (tariff) can be zero if the full origins of the goods can be proven to be from the country the agreement is with