Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 19
27/01/2024
This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.
Business leaders from major companies across Northern Ireland have written to the Prime Minister to voice their support for the Windsor Framework.
Cycloc says ‘Kafkaesque’ rules have cost it £100,000 in latest tale of how EU exit is harming small firms.
The London-based wall-mounted bike storage manufacturer attracted 50% of its business from the EU pre-Brexit and has been left with a £100,000 hole in revenues. /
Centre in Baldonnell will serve customers across the island of Ireland.
Finally – a Visa-free aspect to Brexit. At least that’s what the deluded Dominic Raab is likely to tell you...
Online shopping giant Amazon sent shockwaves through the British payments community on Wednesday November 17 by announcing that Visa credit card payments will not be accepted by its platform after Wednesday January 19.
Amazon says UK customers will not be able to pay for goods using a Visa credit card from January, blaming a "high cost of payments".
Visa raised fees in the UK after the country's split from the European Union.
Martin Lewis explains why Brexit is to blame for Amazon’s controversial Visa credit card move
18/11/2021
Money expert Martin Lewis has laid out how Brexit has led to Amazon no longer accepting Visa Credit cards on its site from January.
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK from next year because of the high transaction fees charged by the payment processor, the ecommerce giant said on Wednesday.
ONLINE giant Amazon is to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK as transaction fees have skyrocketed post-Brexit.
Independent artists and labels say Brexit has had “outrageous” impact in shipping music and merch to and from Europe
16/11/2021
Many UK acts and labels now find it "kind of untenable to ship records to Europe"
A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.
Brexit minister says EU move would be to the detriment of viewers but admits UK is powerless to prevent it.
The EU is considering proposals to exclude British programs from European quotas, a move that could severely hit international sales of U.K. films and TV series to the EU.
Number of UK productions seen as ‘disproportionate’ and threat to Europe’s cultural diversity.
This caller told Eddie Mair he believed Leave voters will soon regret Brexit and realise "they were conned."
Philip Pullman and Kate Mosse among writers warning that changes being considered could flood UK with cheap foreign editions and threaten livelihoods.
An estimated 26,000 ecommerce sellers will have to register for the tax under ‘one-stop shop’ system.
For many sellers on Amazon, Brexit is causing significant problems. Last week my company decided to attempt our first shipment into one of Amazon’s European fulfilment centres since Britain left the European Union on 1 January 2021.
How have consumers and businesses been impacted a month on from the end of transition period?
01/02/2021
What has changed in the 31 days since the UK left and how has it impacted consumers and businesses?
At 23:00 on New Year's Eve a new EU trade border was effectively created in Northern Ireland's ports. / The first of these grace periods is set to expire at the end of March and businesses are already anxious about what comes next.
Irish Amazon customers to avoid Brexit delivery delays and VAT charges as Dublin warehouse set to open
29/01/2021
Amazon is currently on the verge of taking a 650,000sq ft unit at the Mountpark logistics centre in Baldonnell.
Baldonnell site would be retail giant’s first packing centre in Ireland.