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The Chief Executive of the Cold Chain Federation has called on the Defra Secretary to delay the implementation of BTOM until October 2024 to address “serious issues”.
The year in Brexit
20/12/2023
The past 12 months have been littered with grandiose claims about the benefits of Brexit and the ability of the UK to demand what it wants from the EU. But the sad and inescapable conclusion is that none of those benefits exist and that the UK has been forced into a number of embarrassing retreats and compromises.
Former European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson said trying to circumnavigate Brussels was always going to backfire.
As obvious as it is to see the decline in the number of clinical trials in the UK, the reasons behind this trend are as complicated to ascertain. Fiona Maini, Principal - Global Compliance and Strategy at Medidata Solutions, thinks the issue is multifaced with Brexit playing a part in this.
The Brexit fallout
13/07/2023
Brexit was unquestionably a disaster for the UK’s amusement and gaming industry, said the trade personalities that we asked. / “For our business it was a catastrophe. We lost most of our export trade almost overnight"
Formula 1 teams hope the British government can help it in reducing the logistical nightmares that Brexit has triggered.
Firms will have to pass on extra costs of red tape, warns Fresh Produce Consortium.
Where are all those Brexit benefits?
20/05/2023
Project Fear has become Project Reality—just look at Britain’s car industry.
The UK government is still failing to understand the country’s supply chains, say logistics operators, or recognise their anxiety as more Brexit regulations loom.
The boss of a major UK manufacturing firm has told the BBC he is considering moving investment to the US or Europe due to new subsidies offered there.
Brexit burdens still a headwind says Bentley
16/03/2023
It’s not the additional costs themselves, but more about the time and hassle for extra admin.
Three years after Brexit, we asked designers, design entrepreneurs and representatives of British design organisations how the withdrawal from the European Union has affected the design industry.
Business group Logistics UK is urging government to prioritise the needs of the logistics industry, as Parliament continues to debate the Retained EU Law bill.
Brexodus: Where have all the workers gone?
26/01/2023
The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear.
Trade Consultation: Give Your Evidence - UK Trade and Business Commission [Deadline: 17/03/2023]
23/01/2023
The UK Trade and Business Commission is gathering evidence to understand the main challenges facing businesses, organisations and economic sectors to establish which policies and trading arrangements will help overcome the economic and trading barriers facing the UK today.
Supply-chain pain caused by the UK’s split from the European Union still lingers for British manufacturers and retailers trying trade with the rest of Europe and beyond.
MacDuff 1890 were supplying customers on the continent with 'Rolls Royce of Scottish Beef'.
An error in the UK’s post-Brexit IT border system disrupted companies bringing goods in from the European Union, raising costs, adding bureaucracy and snarling deliveries.
Ramsden International has fallen to its first-ever loss as new Brexit rules hit revenues at the wholesale exporter.
As the cost of Brexit is counted in wrecked livelihoods, ordinary people are starting to call it out. Loudly. Peter Corr is a lorry driver in Derbyshire.
Supply chain issues, skills shortages, increased costs and red tape among the issues cited.
Supply chain issues set to last throughout 2022, warns Logistics UK; trade could also be hit by fresh Brexit issues
14/06/2022
Pressure on supply chains is set to last throughout 2022, according to Logistics UK in a report that comes at the same time as fresh issues related to trade with Europe appear, with the government proposing unilateral action on Brexit.
A RECORD 78 per cent of UK firms attempting to recruit faced difficulties in finding staff in the first quarter, a survey by British Chambers of Commerce shows.
No surprise at rumours of a further delay to the introduction of post-Brexit border checks, says UK freight association
25/04/2022
Commenting on the spate of recent media reports that the government is considering another delay to the introduction of post-Brexit border checks on goods entering Britain from the EU, the freight sector says that it comes as no great surprise.
BBC Scotland has broken its silence as the questions around its policy of reporting on Brexit mount. / The broadcaster has come under fire in recent days after it aired an interview with the president of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland, Martin Kennedy.