Cluny Lace, known for embellishing Kate Middleton’s (now the Princess of Wales) wedding dress, is facing closure after HMRC implements post-Brexit duty rules, hitting the company with £10,000 duty debt.
Centuries-old lace maker behind Princess of Wales’s wedding dress hit with ‘terminal’ post-Brexit bill
11/04/2023
Family-owned company faces uncertain future because of ‘shortcomings’ in the UK-EU trade agreement.
Derbyshire's The Cluny Lace Company says it has been hit by a new import levy backdated to the UK leaving the EU.
The boss of a Derbyshire lace manufacturer which can trace its history back three centuries says Brexit has said company faces being “killed off by our own side in a couple of years” because of levies imposed on it.
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13/04/2023
Charles Mason on how a post-Brexit duties demand has battered his family's historic lace firm.