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🚨🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🎤🎸🎹🎶🥁🎸🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨🥁 As Lord Frost says #brexit trade returning to normal, music industry body ⁦@ISM_music⁩ decries first 100 days of Brexit as a “disaster”. Latest via @FT - stay with me /1
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@ISM_music @FT So the topline finding by the ISM survey is that 94% of businesses surveyed said that #Brexit had had a negative or very negative impact on them. But why? Well.../2

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@ISM_music @FT It's the fours C's

- Carnets
- Cabotage
- Clearances
- Customs

which combine to make if very much harder to do business, tour etc. Much of this has been masked by #COVID19 preventing travel anyway, but not for much longer (we hope). /3

@ISM_music @FT On clearances, while SOME form of touring is available visa-free in 17 of 27 Members states, in some like Spain or Portugal, you need permits, criminal record checks and fees of €500-€600 euros per night -- that has already caused tours to be cancelled./4

@ISM_music @FT What about cabotage -- the right for truckers to make multiple stops in the EU. That's limited by the Frost trade deal...both between and within countries. That means UK hauliers probably have to register in EU, smaller guys gonna struggle - @RHARichardB is working on a fix /5

@ISM_music @FT @RHARichardB What about clearances? The problem getting visas etc... as Jake Bright, a freelance composer now working in France tells me, the govt guidance is unhelpful. He spend £1500 trying to get a visa IN CASE he needed to stay over 90 days - failed. $$ wasted /6

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@ISM_music @FT @RHARichardB And then the carnets for temporary import of goods to EU -- £360 quid per consignment BUT a security deposit of up to 30% to 40% of value of all stuff being imported. That's a lot of money...more than many can afford to put up says Tarrant Anderson of @VansForBandsLtd /7

@ISM_music @FT @RHARichardB @VansForBandsLtd When @BorisJohnson
addressed MPs in March he said he shared frustrations of industry worth £5bn a year to and would work "flat out" to fix issues....but @ISM_music report said it had witnessed "no real progress" from officials. /8

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@ISM_music @FT @RHARichardB @VansForBandsLtd @BorisJohnson As Oliver Dowden @OliverDowden told MPs last week, Govt is exploring bilateral deals with EU MS to sort issues, but confirmed formal talks not yet started -- and as @DavidGHFrost told MPs today, EU Commission has ways of retarding progress. Alas. /9

@ISM_music @FT @RHARichardB @VansForBandsLtd @BorisJohnson @OliverDowden @DavidGHFrost As @ISM_music
boss @DeborahAnnetts
summarises: “We have clear evidence that the first 100 days of the Brexit Trade Deal have been a disaster for music businesses.”

Let's hope next 100 days turns up something better, coz creative industry are hugely valuable to UK Plc. ENDS