Thread: UK & EU Agree Post-Brexit Trade Deal
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Old 07-12-2020, 12:14   #4762
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Re: Brexit-Transitional Period Ends 31/12/20
Very unsatisfactory and far from oven-ready.
Quote:
Plans for Irish Sea trade border after Brexit in ‘a mess’

Industry bodies call for one-year implementation period to bed down new processes

With less than a month to go until the new border comes into force, the haulage, manufacturing and food industry bodies warned that businesses have insufficient time to adjust to the new system.

The new border arrangements for trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland — part of the Northern Ireland protocol contained in the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the EU last October — will be introduced on January 1, regardless of the outcome of the trade talks due to continue in Brussels on Monday. The Northern Ireland trade bodies called on Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, to seek a one-year implementation period with the EU to bed down the new processes that will require all goods travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to comply with EU customs rules — a demand that negotiators on both sides consider unrealistic. Aodhán Connolly, the director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, said that new research by the Northern Ireland Business Brexit Working Group (NIBBWG) showed that the vast majority of businesses could not prepare in time...

Haulage groups said that even if those concessions were won they would come too late for smaller businesses and would not cover wholesalers and manufacturers. “The timing piece around this, with all the paperwork, just won’t work,” said Richard Burnett the head of the Road Haulage Association. “Frankly, it’s just a mess.” The government has earmarked £200m for its Trader Support Service (TSS), but Northern Irish civil servants preparing for Brexit have warned that registration was still in “early stages” and levels of preparedness were “low”. The TSS, a consortium run by Fujitsu and the Customs Clearance Consortium, a customs intermediary group, will not process export health certificates — a key problem for many businesses — and is frequently unable to answer basic questions, trade groups said.
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