Arrangements for N Ireland have proved to be the most divisive issue in Brexit
Businesses face difficult 3 months for Great Britain – N Ireland trade
UK “underestimated the chilling effect” that Brexit would have on trade
The key message for businesses is that their interests don’t count for very much when it comes to deciding post-Brexit policy
Many managers are now at their wit’s end after 4 months of Brexit problems
Many companies now have a real need to talk to experts in the field about the problems they are facing.
We’re changing our business model – so we can help you change yours
Both small and large companies are suffering major hits to their business due to the new Brexit rules
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Customs & Tariffs, Rules of Origin, VAT, lack of government information are all key concerns for business
“Getting Brexit done” will likely take years, not weeks
Dismantling trading arrangements built up over nearly 50 years is not an easy task.
Businesses face “biggest imposition of red tape in 50 years” in the New Year
Boris Johnson’s “manifest error in declaring there are “no non-tariff barriers” for trade with the EU had business leaders falling off their chairs”.
Your A to Z Guide to the reality of Brexit after 31 December
Your A to Z Guide to the reality of Brexit after 31 December
UK heads for a WTO Brexit on 1 January
What Boris Johnson is suggesting is that the UK will be trading on WTO terms, and without Australia’s better weather.
100 days to go to the Brexit cliff-edge
Yesterday, we saw the novel sight of a former Conservative premier refusing to support her successor on a critical issue for the government. Theresa May told Parliament:
“The government is acting recklessly and irresponsibly with no thought to the long-term impact on the standing of the United Kingdom in the world. This will lead to untold damage to the UK’s reputation. It puts the future of the UK at risk. And, as a result, with regret, I have to tell the minister I cannot support this bill.”
The issue was Johnson’s decision to propose breaking international law in respect of the EU Withdrawal Agreement. Yet he negotiated this deal himself, and made it the basis of his election manifesto.
It follows a series of disappointments since Johnson promised after the referendum:
“British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and settle down …There will continue to be free trade and access to the single market”.
But 2 years later Johnson, as Foreign Secretary, responded to questions about companies’ concerns over Brexit (at an official Lancaster House reception) by saying, “F*** business”. And as the Financial Times has since noted:
‘“F*** business.” Never was the Brexit manifesto more succinctly captured than in Boris Johnson’s impromptu aside.’”
The about-turn over the EU Withdrawal Agreement clearly raises warning flags for future UK trade negotiations after Brexit. It also has major implications for the promised US trade deal, as the BBC’s N American editor has noted:
“I cannot exaggerate the bewilderment in Washington over what UK government is doing over the Good Friday Agreement. Why, a senior official asked me, is Britain doing something that will lead to a No Deal Brexit, and result in no trade deal with the US either?”
There are now just 100 days to got until the end of the Transition Period – and even fewer working days, if one allows for weekends and Christmas holidays. Yet there is still no detailed information from the government on how firms should prepare.
Instead, the government has repeated its ban on the use of the word “Brexit” by ministers – perhaps hoping firms will forget, under the pressures of the pandemic, that the deadline is just round the corner.
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