Living in Cyprus these last 5 years I've gone through peaks & troughs of thinking what the fuck has UK done to it ain't my problem..but after a lifetime career of working in international transport logistics & customs esp road ..I can't shake off the incredulity of it all...
I experienced first hand at the front of freight movements the increasing ease of trade within Europe. (Who remembers the SAD?)..it's proliferation..expanding free circulation & free movement .the disparity with what was needed to buy,/sell anywhere else in world ..all wound back
Wound back to a time worse than the early 1970s because at least then UK faced the same intra-European trade barriers as all others ...
now UK will be alone (with less UK *owned* industry) outside the whole of the major European economies still operating within the single market.
Belarussian brexit

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2 Jun
The head of international affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses, James Sibley said "..what we really need to see is policymakers on both side of the Channel doing their upmost to minimise additional tariff & non-tariff barriers for the smallest firms ..... 1/
as we try to get the global economy back on track”..

Errr..the policymakers *did* do their "utmost" !! For fucks sake...40 years ago..

it was called the Single Market ..... 2/
“Fundamentally though, firms are struggling with the new requirements that have arisen because of the EU-UK trade deal and ending the VAT exemption will hit a lot of firms hard.”
Oh you don't say !! Only been saying so for last 5 bloody years mind!!
Belarussian fucking brexit
Read 4 tweets
15 May
Brexit NI protocol portrayed as in UK media as "unreasonable EU" ..consider this. The EU single market is designed to allow the free movement of goods (& services) across & throughout all member states 
(& with free circulation of commercial value goods inside a customs union).
To allow this absolute free trade *internally* those member states importing from outside the bloc are expected to rigorously apply the Union Customs Code & its SPS regime. Further those with an exterior EU land border have further duty to protect all member states with interior
EU borders. For example Polish border officials & infrastructure support must be especially vigilant against non convergent Belarussia & Russia on its eastern frontiers. Brexit has put the likes of France, Belgium & The Netherlands in this same position as Poland
Read 8 tweets
12 May
“The UK and the EU must now get back around the table and continue talks so they can build upon the arrangements set out in the agreement to deliver long-term improvements to the flow of trade between them.”
1/ It's called joining a single market & customs union
2/ Why would EU "get back around the table" when EU given what UK wants, but UK no capacity to fully control the inbound EU traffic.. ?

so EU export businesses are favoured.

(EU import businesses will simply seek..and are successfully seeking... alternative EU suppliers)
Read 4 tweets
10 May
Sigh! ...
Once again this is not "news"
anything coming out of a freeport does not benefit from host country trade deals.
They are seperate/not host country territory for customs (nor regulatory) trading purposes inbound or outbound.
They're "free" of host country rules & regs
I remember one brexity twerp saying eg IRL could ship into a UK freeport for "more competitive" components/ingredients before selling onto rest of EU...
overlooking fact goods would no longer be moving internally (free movement & free circulation) when re-emerging to re-enter EU
. i.e. unless that freeport has its own trade deal with the EU it (the finished product) re-emerging outbound will be subject to same EU terms to (re) enter the EU (any) market as any country with no trade deal with it nor membership of the WTO
Read 4 tweets
2 May
I have just come across demented @CatharineHoey claiming that the border issue for UK/Ireland could be "solved" by Ireland also leaving the EU.
Putting aside the arrogance...how?
Why is it so hard to understand you can only avoid a customs border by *sharing* customs (union) territory & a market standards/bio compliance proving border by *sharing* equally recognised authority (single/internal) market territory...?
so unless Ireland joins UK customs union & single/internal market...or UK allows Ireland to run its customs/common external tariffs & market standards/bio policy
...that aint gonna work
Read 4 tweets
30 Apr
UK exporters are struggling to comply with complex rules of origin and prove where their goods were produced. Consequently, they are unable to gain tariff and quota-free access to European markets. To complicate things further, there are product-specific rules and...
...different requirements for non-preferential & preferential origin goods. Again, this is something that people don’t fully appreciate when filling in their customs declarations. Exporters are often unaware that they need to comply with the rules of the specific trade agreement
as well as the general rules of origin & these can vary from country to country.. It’s important to check that the statement of origin on the commercial invoice matches the text in the trade agreement. Companies should copy & paste the official text directly from the legislation
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