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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You are looking only at the EU, as usual. We will be thinking more globally in the future. That’s where our opportunities lie.
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I think you misread my post. We're talking about the UK facing tariffs when selling steel and aluminium to the US whereas the EU has been able to get these removed.
The EU will continue to increase its deals globally as well so we're unlikely to get any deals from other countries that we wouldn't have got with them. Maybe a bit quicker and maybe on inferior terms.
I know some may take a more socialist attitude when businesses complain and they're entitled to their opinions. But if you still believe there's unconquered territories just waiting for British exports, the experience of the Cheshire Cheese Company may be eye-opening.
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Spurrell [company's co-founder] said he had pursued new business in Norway and Canada but post-Brexit trade deals sealed by the government had put barriers in place.
“We no longer have any ability to deal with the EU as our three distributors in Germany, France and Italy have said we have become too expensive because of the new checks and paperwork.
“And now we’ve also lost Norway since the trade deal, as duty for wholesale is 273%. Then we tried Canada but what the government didn’t tell us is that duty of 244% is applied on any consignment over $20 [£15].”
That meant Canadian customers who ordered a gift pack worth £50, including transport fees, were asked to pay £178 extra in duty when the courier arrived at their door, Spurrell said. “As you can imagine, customers were saying: ‘You can take that back, we don’t want it anymore’.”
Norwegian duty on a £30 cheese pack amounted to £190 extra, he said.
Spurrell is now pursuing the domestic market with greater vigour but says the cost of marketing has gone “through the roof” because all his competitors are having to do the same.
“Before we could sell across the EU, now we are all fishing in the same pond. We used to be the biggest online sellers but now we are absolutely bombarded with attacks by all our cheese rivals because they are buying all the ads on Google to try to beat us. These are competitors who would never have bothered us before,” he said.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business...ver-negotiated