Post-Brexit trade border controls to cost UK $6 billion – DW – 05/20/2024
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The UK's public spending watchdog said government expenditures on implementing new rules for post-Brexit imports would total some $6 billion. The report criticized "uncertainty" surrounding government plans.

The UK’s public spending watchdog said government expenditures on implementing new rules for post-Brexit imports would total some $6 billion. The report criticized “uncertainty” surrounding government plans.

Britain will spend at least 4.7 billion pounds ($6 billion, €5.5 billion) on implementing a new approach to import goods after exiting the EU customs market in 2020, the UK government’s public spending watchdog said on Monday.

The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but remained in the bloc’s single market and customs union until 2021.

In 2021, the UK withdrew from the EU customs union and a new EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) went into effect.

The European Parliament said in a report that the trading of goods between the parties had become “burdensome” since Brexit and trade volumes had shrunk.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    7 months ago

    Where I am, there’s an import tax on everything you order from the UK

    But the post office has slapped their own €8 service charge on top of that

    Literally everyone I know has stopped ordering stuff from UK companies

    That’s really gotta hurt an economy, big time

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      Yep.

      There’s dozens of UK companies that have essentially moved their operations to the EU to keep trading.

      UK companies that are selling via country local distributors to businesses are doing ok.

      But small time B2B and B2C is fucked.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        You’d be surprised

        John Lewis? Nope

        White Company? Nope

        Loads of big companies have just stopped delivering to EU

        Fuckin nightmare trying to get teabags FFS

      • fritobugger2017@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Yup, we opened an office and warehouse in Germany for EU sale instead of shipping into our UK HQ warehouse and out to the EU. The costs of the new German branch are far less than the costs for shipping into our UK HQ and back out to the EU.