UK SME retailers are having to route goods through friends and family in the EU to cater to the single market as they struggle to stay afloat in a maze of post-Brexit red tape.

The owner of an independent record label said their LPs and singles were being sent direct from a Czech pressing plant to a relative in the Republic of Ireland to post on to customers in the EU because additional costs otherwise made the sales unviable.

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  • Glariana bauer

    March 30, 2021 at 2:07 pm

    They year is young still, on July first, ALL the parcels have to pay duty, even those under 135€ which now still fall under a grace-period.

    Then all detail exports to EU will be nonviable.