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10 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This story shows a profound misunderstanding of what free ports do.

These provisions are standard.

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This is not a fiasco, this is how freeports work.

It's normal NOT to be able to combine production in a free port and using trade agreements.

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It's the other way round - allowing the use of preferential tariffs for goods from free ports would have to be specially agreed.

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Even the most flexible wording of the provisions Labour is mentioning wouldn't automatically make that possible.
Without an agreement from the other party.

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This is not news
This is not a fiasco

Please remember that the whole reason freeports function the way they function is that they are a separate customs territory.

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Dr Anna Jerzewska Profile picture
7 May
Important info for all the SMEs wishing to use the HMRC customs grant.

So many companies ask me for a quote (needed to submit the application) for help with “learning how to submit customs declarations”.

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There are two elements to learn – how to collect customs info (commodity code, origin, value, CPC etc) and how to then enter it into CHIEF/CDS.

These are two separate sets of skills - normally done by different entities: one by the company and one by the broker.

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Both are incredibly important. Both can lead to non-compliance.

The grant is 2k.

You can either get a bespoke service where the advisers work only with you or a group course.

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4 May
Missed it last week.

More evidence of the consequences of introducing new friction - completely foreseeable and understandable.

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Trade between the UK and the EU is of course still very much possible and if you meet origin requirements also tariff-free.

But the change simply makes it more difficult, more expensive and less competitive.

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So if you have a choice... you're likely to look elsewhere.

One point to mention, there is no "re-opening of the talks". That's not how trade deals work.

/3

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Dr Anna Jerzewska Profile picture
29 Apr
This is a truly historic day - I disagree with David (and @pmdfoster). And that doesn't happen often!

Customs and trade facilitation chapters in FTAs are quite generic. The actual, tangible cooperation and facilitation often occur informally, through a bilateral dialogue.
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for me, it’s not a question of how often the Customs Committee meets but the conversations that take place on a completely different level – customs administration to customs administration, officer to officer.

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There are two completely different levels here:

1⃣ customs, SPS and border formalities and requirements

2⃣ day-to-day operational issues

/3
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25 Apr
Take it from someone who spends part of the time working on export promotion strategies in various countries around the world that “getting more of them to export” is not as easy as it sounds.

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Having an FTA in place is step one. And it doesn’t mean very much without supporting policies. I wonder if (I hope) the Gov is well aware of this.

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In order to achieve any returns on this investment (negotiating and FTA) further, far less “sexy”, policies are required: i.e. around awareness, guidance, access to financing etc.

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19 Apr
How to combine a customs union and bilateral trade deals?

A question widely discussed a few years back in the context of Brexit but one that's much bigger than that.

A couple of thoughts on that based on @_AnabelG's superb blog for @PIIE.

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piie.com/blogs/trade-an…
In principle CU members are not meant to sign their own FTAs but as @_AnabelG points out few of the existing CUs are perfect.

Many CUs are partial and some are a hybrid between a CU and an FTA – e.g. include rules of origin.

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As a reminder: CU members have a common external tariff applied to all 3rd parties.

As a result, they can eliminate tariffs and other quantitative restrictions amongst themselves. Customs formalities and checks are still in place.

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24 Mar
At the heart of this entire mess is one thing and one thing only:

How do you communicate the scale of the new barriers to trade that are going to be introduced when for political reasons you are obliged to spin it as liberalisation?

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It's not that the UK Gov didn't realise what was coming.

HMRC, DEFRA and other departments know these 3rd country rules inside out. They've got experts of their own in customs, SPS and everything else.

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These Departments were well aware of requirements such as RoOs or health certificates.

But for some reason, whether it was lack of communication, deliberate decision or something else, that knowledge did not translate into a clear message from the UK Gov.

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