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A new trade hub has been established by the British Beauty Council (BBC) to help personal care businesses ‘navigate their way through the jargon’ of the post-Brexit trading landscape.
‘Long overdue’: Government finally hands UK firms customs numbers that will let them trade with EU after Brexit
21/08/2019
88,000 firms to be given a registration numbers but business groups warn much more needs to be done to prevent severe disruptions to trade.
Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson referred for the second successive day on Thursday to "an excellent paper" endorsed by pro-Brexit members of parliament proposing alternatives to replace the so-called Irish backstop.
The UK government has decided to recognise the EU's product safety symbol indefinitely, in a post-Brexit climbdown. / From the end of next year, goods such as light bulbs and toys were meant to carry a new UK-only mark to be sold in Great Britain.
Government accused of ‘failure and broken promises’, as exports set to slump next year.
UK companies face Brexit import controls
03/01/2022
British firms face the introduction of much-delayed post-Brexit border control checks from 1 January which will affect businesses importing $314 billion of goods a year from the European Union.
Regulations likely to result in higher prices and empty shelves for delis and others.
Thousands of small businesses at risk amid ‘unprecedented’ confidence slump since Brexit vote
21/10/2019
Sajid Javid urged to make ‘radical interventions’ to avoid ‘a very bleak winter’.
The Brexit effect: Scotland's food and drink industry needs more than rhetoric about 'taking back control' from UK government – Scotsman comment
23/05/2021
There can be few things more heartbreaking for a farmer or fisherman than to see their produce rotting in the fields, a depot or a container for no good reason.
Time-poor SMEs are being forced to outsource their post-Brexit paperwork – heaping even more pressure on costs, according to new research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
It was billed as the rebirth of British business — a chance to build a brighter commercial future, free of costly bureaucracy. But Brexit is proving far from profitable for many UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Quarter of small UK firms have temporarily suspended EU sales due to post-Brexit rules: survey
29/03/2021
Nearly a quarter of small British companies have temporarily halted sales with the European Union because of post-Brexit rules, a new survey has found.
Current charges, which have remained unchanged since the UK severed ties with the EU, are roughly 0.5 per cent.
Government’s new trade red tape likely to hit long-term productivity, trade economists warn.
One in four small UK exporters halt EU sales
29/03/2021
More than one in four small British exporters have stopped sending goods to the EU since the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January over frustrations about the amount of new red tape, according to a new survey.
One in four small U.K. exporters have halted sales to the European Union because of red tape caused by Brexit, according to a survey published Monday.
Almost one in five exporters have temporarily halted sales to the European Union (EU) after new post-Brexit trading rules took effect at the start of the year, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
A major food processor has warned that the government's plan to change the Northern Ireland Protocol will be a "disaster" for NI dairy exports.
Small businesses can expect trade with the European Union to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, a supply chain trade body has said.
New customs checks will make imports more expensive and slower, says Cold Chain Federation.
EIGHT in 10 smaller firms which face being impacted by the imposition of import checks next year have said they are not fully ready to comply with the new paperwork.
An estimated 26,000 ecommerce sellers will have to register for the tax under ‘one-stop shop’ system.
Burden of red tape means that 25% of small UK exporters have halted sales.
The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’.