Card fees for online transactions between UK and EU up five-fold since Brexit.

Today marks 100 days since Brexit properly happened in the UK - with seamless trade and EU rules replaced by a weighty trade deal.

Awesome Books isn’t finding Brexit very awesome.

As we pass 60 days of Brexit entering the final month of the first quarter of 2021, let’s take a deeper look at the impact of Brexit on UK businesses and especially e-commerce businesses. Before authoring this article, I had numerous conversations with independent e-commerce business founders. I have based this article on those discussions to bring forward first-hand experiences.

In the 31 days since Brexit was signed, sealed and delivered we’ve seen no end of complaints and ‘red-tape’ measures imposed upon traders and customers who deal with Europe, which hasn’t been helped by the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon has stopped selling wines, beers and spirits to its customers in Northern Ireland as it wrestles with new customs rules post-Brexit.

Amazon is preparing to remove some products for sale to NI customers as a result of the Irish Sea border.

ONLINE giant Amazon is to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK as transaction fees have skyrocketed post-Brexit.

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.

Brexit is likely to drive up prices at Boohoo, with additional costs largely relating to distribution and administration to blame.

With a host of new rules and regulations in effect (and many more still to come) experts from the BRC and Deloitte sat down for a look at the impact on E-commerce, the future of digital trade, and the major changes on the way for UK retailers.

The Financial Conduct Authority has reminded UK payment service providers to prepare for changes to the law affecting cross-border payments due to Brexit.

The UK’s exit from the European Union is damaging business and the difficult trading landscape post-Brexit cannot continue, argues Dan Gyves, managing director at Esska Shoes.

Lincoln-based insulation manufacturer and supplier, SuperFOIL Insulation, says it has lost a quarter of a million pounds revenue as a result of Brexit.

International delivery company ParcelHero is cautioning that businesses could face further disruption as the European Union (EU) prepares to sue the UK over its unilateral decision last week to extend the grace period covering new checks on parcels and food shipments to Northern Ireland.

There has been a significant decline in online shopping from British-based websites post-Brexit, with just under half of those who have bought from the UK experiencing some kind of issues with their deliveries.

He said Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”. / A partner in a brand new $1bn venture capital fund has warned that London risks losing its status as a global tech hub as Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”.

Brexit was hailed as an escape from the ‘red tape’ of the EU, however ecommerce businesses are learning that selling into the EU comes with more Brexit red tape than they ever had to deal with before.

New red tape and charges causing ‘major problems’ to 35 per cent of traders relying on parcel deliveries.

Every now and then there are weeks when Brexit issues surge back to the foreground, and this has been one of them.

The House of Lords European Affairs Committee heard that whilst technology infrastructure and digital tools could help, more clarity and support is needed.

Irish consumers are planning on buying Irish after Brexit and many have already switched from UK websites due to concerns around consumer rights.

Brexit threatens to leave a £5.25 billion “black hole” in ecommerce sales as tensions between Brussels and London escalate dramatically.

Parcel firms demanding payment before delivering items ordered from European websites since Brexit.

Nearly half of all UK consumers who bought goods from EU-based retailers since the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December experienced some issues, such as extra paperwork, delays or surprise costs, a new survey by the consumer group found.

Anyone ordering goods from the EU in 2021 has likely come in for a nasty shock to the wallet.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has released research it commissioned from Ipsos MRBI in December 2021 examining the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit on consumers awareness and behaviours while shopping online.

Which? said shoppers buying from the EU could face additional fees of up to £300 this Christmas.

Which? is calling on the government and businesses to make the new costs of buying from EU-based retailers clear and increase the public’s awareness of these changes so consumers are not left with unexpected fees or scammed into paying unnecessary charges.

The add-on costs when buying goods from the bloc should be more transparent so that shoppers are not hit with surprise fees or scammed, consumer group Which? has said.

One of the few dairies allowed to make Stilton said it has had to stop sales to the European Union (EU) since Brexit.

Who’d have thought that three months on we’d still be struggling with Brexit barriers that impact how cross channel trade works? In fact, as a country, we haven’t even really got internal trade sorted with Northern Ireland still seeing issues ordering goods to and from mainland Britain.

The European Commission has launched four new legal actions against the UK government for breaking parts of the Northern Ireland Brexit deal.

E-commerce deliveries to the UK from the EU plummeted by over 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 in comparison to the last quarter of 2020, research from shipping platform Sendcloud has found.

Online deliveries to the UK from Europe have plunged 50.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, according to e-commerce shipping platform Sendcloud.

Consumers now face UK VAT, rather than local rates, as well as customs duty and courier admin charges

Britain’s departure from the European Union has triggered the biggest change in trade since it joined the bloc 48 years ago, with companies grappling with export documents, longer delivery times and the need to re-engineer supply chains.

From online shopping to fishing to musicians, here are some of the obvious problems that have arisen since January 1 - as well as a few things that have gone better.

WITH just 100 days to go until Christmas, HMRC is urging shoppers to ensure they don’t get caught out by unexpected charges when buying from overseas traders.

With less than 100 days to go until Christmas, HMRC is urging shoppers to ensure they don’t get caught out by unexpected charges when buying from overseas traders.

Many UK acts and labels now find it "kind of untenable to ship records to Europe"

Not all retailers will automatically add VAT or customs charges at the online checkout.

Change from October could lead to higher prices for those paying with UK-issued cards

LOCAL MLA Jemma Dolan, has tabled a motion at the Assembly calling for the government to take action and remove what has been branded the “Brexit credit card rip-off”.

The cost of using your card online to buy a shipment from France has soared fivefold since Brexit.

A SCOTS musician and entrepreneur has told how the nightmare of Brexit has been a “bomb” in his life – leaving him unable to tour and posing huge problems for his online merchandising business.

Customs charges are leading to nasty surprises for some online shoppers

UK business is again looking for workarounds to continue trading with the EU, after Germany announced it would be ending VAT exemption for goods valued at less than €22.

An estimated 26,000 ecommerce sellers will have to register for the tax under ‘one-stop shop’ system.

Three Connexion readers' experiences of the changes caused by the UK’s ‘third country’ status since Brexit on January 1.

Online deliveries from the EU to the UK have divebombed by more than 50 per cent since January as Brexit regulations stop shoppers from buying abroad.

A new report from e-commerce shipping platform Sendcloud has revealed that online deliveries from Europe to the UK have fallen by 50.7% in the first quarter of 2021 compared with Q4 2020, with new shipping requirements and additional VAT charges brought about by Brexit affecting the number of parcels being shipped to the UK.

Supermarkets are preparing to introduce rationing for online shoppers to prevent panic buying in the event of a no-deal Brexit, The Sunday Times can reveal.

Consumers are beginning to see the introduction of additional charges and taxes when shopping with British retailers.

Current charges, which have remained unchanged since the UK severed ties with the EU, are roughly 0.5 per cent.

It is now just over a month since the UK and EU went their separate ways. But many retailers, carriers and others involved in the world of cross-border ecommerce, may well feel that they have aged considerably more than just a few weeks.

Britain has been outside the EU’s legal regime for a year and has faced a number of impacts.

Irish consumers and retailers have reported difficulties obtaining Scotch whiskies, as several distilleries and UK retailers pause EU sales post-Brexit.

Post-Brexit exports from the UK to EU countries now take 112 per cent longer on average, according to new research.

Sir Keir Starmer has told an LBC listener whose small business has been hit hard by Brexit that he will raise her problem with the Government.

Pricewatch: Shoppers waiting weeks for deliveries despite buying from Irish domains.

Post-Brexit border controls and customs requirements have “gutted” SME businesses – and have left some industries fearing a UK talent drain.

More than one in three UK businesses (37 per cent) have lost revenue from cross-border card payments post-Brexit, according to new research.

Two-in-three online shoppers here have reduced their purchasing from UK websites because of Brexit, according to a survey commissioned by KPMG.

UK SME retailers are having to route goods through friends and family in the EU to cater to the single market as they struggle to stay afloat in a maze of post-Brexit red tape.

UK shoppers may have parcels held at post office until fees paid as red tape introduced from 1 January.

Consumers have seen changes to their online shopping post-Brexit including surprise tax additions, customs charges and higher delivery fees.

They have decided to scale down their business in order to spend more time as a family, but say the decision is also because Brexit has made their business far more difficult to run.

From import charges to confusing returns processes, post-Brexit rules mean shopping with European retailers isn’t as simple as it used to be.

Administrators have today announced that the international eCommerce stores for Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles will be switched off. / In a move that will see the WiggleCRC business "focus its efforts solely on the UK market," the Joint Administrators in charge of the group have revealed that the transition will take place "over the coming weeks."