News / Whitehall's new customs agent academy? 'It's all smoke and mirrors'

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By Alex Lennane

14/05/2020

The freight industry has raised serious doubts over the announcement last month by UK minister Michael Gove of a new “customs agent academy”.

Mr Gove said the government was talking to the forwarding industry about a new academy, but when questioned by The Loadstar, the Cabinet ...

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Rob
May 14, 2020 at 5:10 pm
A very enlightening article, I hadn’t heard of this before. Solutions definitely need to be found. Thanks – Rob

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