New UK border checks on imports 'bring cost, confusion and frustration'
Supply chain leaders have warned of increased costs, confusion and frustration as the UK today ...
If you can cope with any more Brexit talk, there is an interesting – and mercifully short – article in CILT’s magazine. Happily, it outlines some of the potential benefits, or at least mitigating factors, which could minimise border disruption, such as less road freight for non-EU imports entering the UK through main European ports and more direct calls to London Gateway and Fexlistowe; and a proposal that companies self-assess their import duties – which large companies like the sound of. There are, of course, some negatives, with ro-ro in Benelux, Scandinavia and France expected to feel the pinch. And there remain concerns over the Irish border, as well as the massive amount of administrative work all this will take.
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