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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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Here's what barrier to trade look like when you fail to negotiate. Talking to a good supplier in England. She has had umpteen delays and VAT applied incorrectly.
This pile below is one transaction. Now means three bills have to be raised in our FreeAgent accounts plus two journal entries to explain that the largest item here is EU VAT.
TNT/Fedex charges fee which is vatted in itself so his earns money for them. The rest is passed on to HMRC and reclaimed by us. before this was automated. Sure Mr Gove would be happy doing a few of these.
Here's a typical UA delivery track now... different courier / same problem.
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Exports to EU plunge by £5.6bn in first month since Brexit
Fall of 40.7% comes as UK economy in January shrinks by most since first wave of Covid pandemic
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Delays and confusion at the UK’s ports threatens to put hundreds of small and medium-sized exporters out of business
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Britain’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has been accused by Brussels of displaying a “total misunderstanding” of the Brexit deal after claiming the EU was trying to erect a barrier between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
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Analysis of the figures by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) shows cheese exports in January plummeted from £45m to £7m year on year, while whisky exports nosedived from £105m to £40m. Chocolate exports went from £41.4m to just £13m, a decline of 68%.
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A celebration of the British weather and the largest grow-your-own food project of modern times will be among the events being staged for a nationwide festival of creativity aimed at bringing the UK together in 2022.
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I guess we can at least look forward to whisky being more keenly priced and less marketing driven if the drinks producers have to concentrate on the domestic market.
We can all get leathered on cheap whisky while eating sprouts and leaks and what ever other unappealing greens that grow over winter.
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“other unappealing greens“
I know sprouts are controversial (Brussels too..), but leeks?
Delicious in so many ways, usually local too!
https://blog.gardeningknowhow.com/tbt/giant-musselburgh-leek-plants/
(Smaller ones usually tastier. )
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Alright I was being unfair to leeks. I'll give you that.
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The British digestive tract is going to have to get used to dealing with coarse brassicas. Batten down the hatches.
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This may or may not be the right thread (my bold).
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A lorry driver has been charged with trying to smuggle people out of the UK after a lorry with 17 migrants on board was found.
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'We've been sold a dud': small firms suffer decline in post-Brexit exports
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Small businesses have reported a marked drop in exports to the EU as another company bemoaned the post-Brexit “nightmare” of delivery delays and increased costs.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), a lobby group, said 35 of the 132 exporters it surveyed had temporarily suspended trade with the EU or stopped it permanently. One in 10 of the exporters surveyed said they were also considering giving up trade with EU customers.
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He added: “Three months on from the end of the transition period, what we hoped would prove to be teething problems are in danger of becoming permanent, systemic ones.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/29/small-business-exports-fall-eu-survey-brexit
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I see the "special relationship" with the US just got a bit more special, in the form of punitive tariffs in relation for the UK's digital services tax.
Brexit - the ever lasting gobstopper with an incredibly bitter taste.
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Spain has warned British tourists and second-home owners that they are not entitled to spend more than 90 days in the country at a time post-Brexit, but dismissed reports that offenders would be rounded up and deported if they overstay.
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Taco Carlier, the joint founder of the fast-growing electric bicycle company VanMoof, whose main base is close to Amsterdam, told the Observer Brexit had been anything but good for business. The UK was now a huge market but prices of his e-bikes to customers here would have to rise.
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Another Scottish business moving to service its European customers.
“We couldn’t find a single haulage company that wanted to take pallets of what is considered animal feed,” he said. “It was deemed too risky in case our documentation was not in order or the goods were refused or delayed somewhere in transit.“Trying to continue selling products that require export declarations, export health certificates and then import declarations (by our EU customers) was going to be impossible especially given the fact that couriers and transport companies did not want to take our goods.
“This move will obviously mean a loss in tax revenue, jobs and investment in the UK economy. However, our European customers are happy that they don’t have to deal with a British business anymore with the implications that now has.
“It is a very frustrating situation for any UK food or animal food business that exports to the EU."
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Apologies make cynical history, but Boris Johnson has a big one to make, and fast. He must apologise to Northern Ireland’s unionists that he did not mean it last year when he pledged “no border” down the Irish Sea. As the Good Friday agreement negotiator, Jonathan Powell, wrote on Sunday, this was a lie. Johnson had just told the Irish government that the Good Friday deal held and there would be no border on the island of Ireland. Given Britain’s intention to leave the EU’s customs union, the two statements were incompatible, and Johnson knew it. Every truck on the Belfast ferry knows it, too.
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UK banks and insurers have shifted more than £1.0 trillion to the European Union in response to Brexit, a study published Friday (16 April) found.
More than 440 firms operating in the UK banking and finance sector have relocated parts of their business, moved staff or established new EU entities in response to Brexit, according to the study from think-tank New Financial.
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More 'cross border' trade in Ireland it seems. Businesses will seek out whatever is easiest / most profitable. Paperwork costs money and that's why all political parties (except UKipSelfservitive) were committed to making European trade as frictionless as possible.
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A Welsh business co-owner says Brexit cost him £250,000 extra in the first two months of this year.
Children's bike manufacturer, Frog Bikes, employs around 50 people at it's factory in Pontypool and has a global customer base, Wales Online report.
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https://road.cc/content/news/brexit-cost-bicycle-business-ps250000-two-months-282613
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