26 April 2021 – Shipping wine to the UK is now a “bloody nightmare” and it’s only likely to get worse. Is there a more disingenuous statement than “get Brexit done”? Almost five years have passed since the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, but the hard work is just beginning. I hope and…
14 March 2021 – Before the implementation of Brexit, the Swedes were able to order goods from British companies without paying customs duties. This is no longer the case. At the turn of the year, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union, which means that the country is outside the European Union’s customs union.…
10 March 2021 – Predictions of doom and gloom have been hitting the headlines since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016. How many of them have come true? For the gun trade at least, there have been mixed results since the actual break up at the start of 2021. One of…
1 March 2021 – Susan Boylan, director analyst in the Logistics Strategy and Operations Team of Gartner, Inc., describes the key changes in tariffs, immigration rules and customs clearance procedures that U.K. logistics providers are grappling with right now as a result of Brexit. Despite the years of wrangling over the terms of Great Britain’s exit from…
27 February 2021 – Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll distils a few of the post-exit bumps facing individual British firms that she has investigated for the Guardian Hard cheese Cheesemaker Simon Spurrell reports losing a fifth of his orders overnight when Britain left the single market on 1st January. His Cheshire Cheese Company had a successful line…
12 January 2021 – Customs officials have denied goods are being held up at ports by post-Brexit red tape and blamed companies for failing to fill in paperwork correctly. Revenue says that 76pc of goods were getting cleared within 30 minutes of ships arriving to Dublin Port on Tuesday morning, and that freight traffic is…
8 January 2021 – Northern Ireland continues to bear the brunt of changes brought about by Brexit as concerns over truck shortages grow. Policy manager for Northern Ireland at Logistics UK Seamus Leheny told the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee there was a lack of procedural understanding on the GB side of the Irish Sea.…
18 November 2020 – West Norfolk businesses continue to be faced with uncertainty over Brexit as the end of the transition period for leaving the European Union looms ever closer. Among the issues causing concern are pre-Brexit panic buying, employees returning to their home countries and the position on tariffs ahead of the December 31…
9 November 2020 Freight Forwarding and Logistics Sectors Tire of Saying ‘I Told You So’ UK – EUROPE – The report published at the end of last week by the National Audit Office (NAO) has been met in private with cries of derision and ‘we told you so’ from all quarters of the British logistics sector. Publicly…
9th November 2020 – Industry experts have expressed “grave concerns” at the UK government’s “unnecessary insistence” on implementation of the new Customs Declaration System (CDS). Chair of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers Steve Bartlett and director general of the UK Association for International Trade Des Hiscock told the EU goods sub-committee CDS was “not…
