Around 100 days after Brexit, most companies are experiencing Brexit effects that are more negative than they expected at the beginning of the year.

Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.

Wales and the rest of the UK should re-join the single market to undo the economic damage caused by Brexit, Plaid Cymru has said.

Whitstable's world famous oyster export industry is under threat, following a post-Brexit ban on the export of live shellfish direct from British waters.

"We're stuffed" - Brixham fish merchant Ian Perkes says he's unable to export his fish to France now the new post-Brexit rules and regulation have come into force.

The financial toll of Brexit is clear for exporters like cookware maker Neil Currie: He is buried in new paperwork, has lost orders and the cost of exporting frying pans to France has doubled.

Scottish fishing representative made renewed plea for a 'grace period' and for EU customs posts in Scotland to reduce bureaucratic delays being faced by exporters.

A significant amount of the UK’s meat production may become non-compliant for export to the EU if proposed changes are implemented, the sheep sector has warned.

The extra costs of doing trade with Europe have already wiped out the entire 2020 profits of Frog Bikes in Pontypool

Brexit red tape has left the Cheshire Cheese Company unable to sell to the EU and Northern Ireland and "it seems that it can't be resolved."

France's former ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann tells LBC that Brexit had "no advantages" and that facts were presented as "scaremongering".

There is a stark disconnect between promises of prosperity and the grim post-Brexit reality for the UK fishing industry, according to fishing boat owner Mark Addison. "There's been issues with queues, passports, paperwork, groupage in lorries.... which is a big problem with fresh produce like fish." says Mr Addison, speaking from Peterhead in Scotland, Europe's largest whitefish market.

Portsmouth International Port will only get £17.1 out of £32m, meaning an essential live animal border control point cannot be built.

Businesses in the West Midlands say they are experiencing big delays in exporting to Europe or having goods returned to the UK due to problems with paperwork and VAT payments.

This exporter tells James O'Brien that "filling in commodity codes" and "getting test certificates" for his products because of Brexit has caused "staggering and obscene" costs and delays for his business.

A Welsh business is at risk of losing £400,000 because of "preposterous bureaucracy" brought about by Brexit.

Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.

Businesses cite higher costs, customs delays and paperwork as among the problems they face.

Liz Truss has told six MPs she will not answer their questions in Parliament next week because they want to ask about the problems facing British exporters trading with Europe. I’ve led a cross-party group to tell Liz that sticking her head in the sand is just not good enough.

UK farmers today told William and Kate that Brexit could be "absolutely dire" for their livelihoods, with one saying voting Leave was like "turkeys voting for Christmas".

A Welsh shellfish wholesaler says she is worried for her future after nearly £50,000 of lobsters, prawns and crabs were delayed for more than 30 hours on a lorry to Spain.

Jo Foster has asked her MP, Rishi Sunak, three times for help with her businesses struggling after Brexit. She told Politics Editor Ralph Blackburn he needs to face up to reality.

"SIGNIFICANT problems" are unfolding on the Irish Sea trade border over exports from the rest of the UK as firms struggle to meet new rules, MPs have been told.

The EU Goods Sub-Committee has published its report, Beyond Brexit: trade in goods, examining what the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) means for trade in goods.

Welcome to the Modern world of BREXIT and the mess it brings , unbelievable that we find ourselves in this position, we need governments to cover our claims this week, we have lost thousands of pounds by doing nothing wrong.

Lewis Goodall disputes Bruges Group's Robert Oulds after his stance on Brexit contradicts facts.

Krugman rejects the assertions of Brexiteers that leaving the single market and customs union will ultimately help the UK export more to the rest of the world.

One in every ten exporting companies who are clients of Enterprise Ireland say they have spent over €100,000 on preparing for Brexit so far, according to a new survey by the organisation.

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

It’s almost 100 days since Britain completed its split from the EU -- almost five years after the referendum vote –- and a clearer picture of the consequences of the decision to leave is starting to emerge.

UK automotive industry puts the record straight on ‘no deal’ Brexit impact, as Parliament debates the meaningful vote.

Five years ago Wednesday, Britons voted in a referendum that was meant to bring certainty to the U.K.’s unsettled relationship with its European neighbors, but it most certainly did not

Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.

With Britain out of the European Union, companies that trade with the continent are contending with expensive disruptions to their businesses and a plunge in exports.

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.

New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad. / Just over half (52%) of farmers said Britain should join the EU and 70% of thought we should at least rejoin the single European market, rising to 85% in the case of those working in the ancillary industries.

British companies say EU customers have walked away from them because of the new red tape.

Just one in eight companies say the deal has been beneficial for them, British Chambers of Commerce finds.

One month after Britain made a New Year split from the European Union’s economic embrace, businesses that once traded freely are getting used to frustrating checks, delays and red tape.

A significant proportion of small exporters have stopped trading to the EU as shipping times have increased in 2021.

Far from minimal disruption, the full impact of leaving the EU may take 15 years to appear.

The industry may become one of the starkest examples no-deal folly, with those dependent on EU markets facing devastation.

A SCOTTISH business has ceased all international trade after its owner said the impact of Brexit led to long waiting times, missed parcels and exorbitant costs.

Data from HMRC shows that the value of Scottish exports has fallen by more than £2.2billion in the past two years.

A cheese company will be able to increase sales in Europe following its acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, by a rival North West business. / Macclesfield-based Cheshire Cheese Company (CCC) had been hit by increased admin costs due to the implementation of Brexit.

Additional paperwork and certification have cost the UK meat industry up to £120 million since the end of the transition period, a new report states.

Issues - dismissed by the prime minister as “teething problems” - show little sign of dissipating.

Small businesses and the agri-food sector have been hardest hit by changes to trade following the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) nearly a year ago, peers warn.

“I cannot think of a single red line that was not crossed.”

Almost 100,000 tree orders bound for Northern Ireland have been cancelled as a result of trade difficulties caused by the Irish Sea border.

U.K. exporters reported lower sales in the first quarter after Covid-19 and the completion of Brexit added to shipping delays, higher transport costs and more extensive paperwork.

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.

An Amble seafood firm has voiced its Brexit frustrations after a clerical error cost it thousands of pounds. / A consignment from Coquet Island Shellfish Company was rejected by French authorities because a form signed 43 times by a UK official did not include a printed name.

Brexit will never be done. Because it can never be done. Not for as long as the UK sits 50km off the European mainland and does 50% of its business with Europe. Not when the island of Ireland sits behind it – and the north east corner of that island is contested political ground.

ITV News Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports on how the economic impacts of Brexit continue to ripple through the UK's economy.

The drop in activity recorded in new CSO figures, including a 65 per cent hit to imports, is substantial and sobering

For the past two years now, British poultry businesses that trade with the EU have faced a double standard.

SCOTTISH Conservative MP Andrew Bowie has been called out for a “car crash” BBC interview which saw him stumble over Brexit and trade – despite his position as a trade minister. / Bowie seemed to suggest that the UK Government was trying to negotiate trade deals with individual member states of the European Union – something which is not possible under the bloc’s rules.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Ed Miliband said "it will be disastrous for fisheries to have no deal" and clashed with Marr over the future of the UK's fishing fleet if it remained tied to the single market to get a deal.

WHAT was a simple one-step process of exporting meat to France in December is now a resource-draining 23-step marathon.

Seafood sector representatives have said exports have "slowed to a trickle" amid what is described as a Brexit "export crisis".

Government taking days to respond to queries, say stuggling businesses.

Fishing tackle and equipment retailer Angling Direct announced on Wednesday that its new European distribution centre was now fully operational, and shipping to customers across the European Union.

A live animal border control post needed due to Brexit will not be built at Portsmouth International Port.

Ann Summers discontinued its direct selling business in Ireland last year because “higher operating costs” associated with Brexit made it “uneconomical”, according to recently filed company documents.

It appears HM Treasury has realised bringing in a measure that will so obviously lead to higher food prices is not a good idea when the country is in the grip of an inflation spiral.

UK firms may struggle to get vital parts from the EU as new laws will force businesses across the channel to set up a presence in the UK.

A trade collapse with the EU shows that the damage will linger on far longer than Liz Truss did.

Already we are seeing clear signs. Businesses are once again increasingly quoting Brexit as their major challenge. Exports to the EU are down.

It wasn't meant to be this way. From border delays to regulation and tariffs we were told would not exist Brexit is wreaking havoc on many businesses.

A fall of 65 per cent in British imports to Ireland in January gives lie to the mere ‘teething problems’ claimed by Brexiteers, with the collapse now in full swing.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, once the minister for Brexit opportunities, is still struggling to wrap his head around the realities of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union four years ago this month, as he’s now been properly educated on its impact on farmers during an interview on his GB News show on Wednesday.

The music merchandise specialist says the move will help alleviate the significant trade issues created by Brexit.

Business groups tell ministers to sort out bureaucratic mess caused by EU trade deal.

If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the government will not be able to support all affected industries. Against a backdrop of steeply deteriorating public finances, the government will be forced into impossible choices about which businesses and industries to save. Without clear principles, the fight over subsidies will be swamped by politics.

Northern Ireland tree buyers are cancelling orders for thousands of trees because of a post-Brexit ban on plants being moved from Great Britain.

The U.K. is due to lose the ability to sell fresh sausages to the European Union after Brexit, a sign of the economic upheaval that comes from quitting the bloc’s single market.

There is only one real way to properly calm the markets – the Prime Minister and the Chancellor need to reverse the unfunded tax cuts they announced.

The government's own impact assessment of the Brexit deal confirms firms will have to pay fees, fill out forms and face border inspections when sending goods within the UK.

‘Everything’s just a lot more difficult and it’s costing us more’

A BBC Question Time audience member shut down a Tory minister who tried to dismiss the sustained impact of Brexit as “something that happened six years ago”. / "Brexit is a disaster for our economy."

Results from the first major business survey for 2021 by the British Chambers of Commerce on Brexit found that half (49%) of exporters are facing difficulties in adapting to the changes in the trade of goods following the ratification of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) on 1 January 2021.

This real-life experience of a small West Yorkshire company, before and after the creation of the single market, provides an insight into our imminent future in the event that we leave the EU without a worthwhile trading deal.

Belgian customs authority advises export before 29 March or pause operations to avoid chaos.

Research for Flemish firms has found that 74% of UK companies said they had been forced to consider other markets, due to post-Brexit administration struggles.

Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.

New Government figures show a massive post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and reveal the UK failed to transition to key export markets such as the USA and China. The new International Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, faces an uphill battle, warns ParcelHero.

Promises of a special trading relationship with America have also yet to materialise, the ONS figures show. / New Government figures show a massive post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and reveal the UK failed to transition to key export markets such as the USA and China.

"The UK government’s decision to further delay the introduction of border controls on imports from the EU is a bitter blow to Scottish farmers and the Scottish food and drink industry."

Prime minister directly contradicts the Brexit secretary and NI secretary over post-Brexit checks.

PM says checks will exist on goods travelling through Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic.

A couple of points are worth observing already. Nearly six years on from the Leave vote, the supposed opportunities of Brexit remain entirely conspicuous by their absence. And ramping up the rhetoric by claiming “immense opportunity” does not change this reality.

OFFICIAL figures showing UK exports fell by more than £1 billion in August once again highlight the “devastating impact” of the Tory government’s Brexit deal, the SNP have said.

The PM made fish a central focus of Brexit talks and promised to "take back control" of UK waters – but it's not going to plan.

Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has written a letter to the government urging ministers raising his concerns over the 'mess' of a trade deal.

Chambers of Commerce call for fresh negotiations with EU to lower trade barriers created by PM’s deal.

The sort of minimal deal he is after would be a disaster for an industry that relies on frictionless trade.

Join experts from the BRC for a look at how things are progressing in Ireland/Northern Ireland with implementing the protocol, and how things are faring in the UK and Brussels following Brexit and the application of the new Trade agreement with the EU. We also cover our take on the new head of the WTO and more.

BrewDog CEO James Watt has warned that Brexit “has been tragic for UK business”, including his own.

It reported that customers in Europe wanted to take British beer but that it was not cost-effective.

A Kent brewery that the government proclaimed as an export champion after Brexit, is racing to find a buyer weeks after it revealed it had only one EU customer left.

Brexit has forced businesses to endure higher costs, more paperwork and border delays, a fresh report has found.

North MP Jamie Stone has accused the UK government of living in a "fantasy land" over Brexit and its impact on trade with Europe.

Ease of trading is key measure of success, say cross-channel businesses, not lack of lorry traffic.

Fruit and veg supply could be ‘in trouble’, says NFU – citing added costs of Brexit and Ukraine war.

Figures from HMRC show that exports from Scotland to the EU have dropped 13 per cent in the past two years

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

'It is literally everything at the moment – Covid-19, feed prices, pig prices, Brexit – it has all happened at the same time'

With the NHS under such exceptional pressure during the coronavirus crisis, it’s easy to overlook the fact that the UK’s Brexit transition period ends on December 31. Mark Dayan takes a closer look at how these two challenges for the health service might collide, and says there is a case to err on the side of caution.

Sally-Ann Hart, feels that Brexit “has not worked” for the fishermen of Hastings and Rye. When you consider the promises that the Conservatives were making – such as Dominic Raab’s claim that they had achieved “a great deal for the fishing industry” – the MP’s words are almost shocking in their plain honesty.

Latest data shows surge in trade between North and Republic.

Shadow international trade minister Gareth Thomas asked Defra what assessment it has made of the reasons for the UK florist industry's decline in trade with the EU.

Customs duty collected on goods imported from abroad jumps as a result of Brexit.

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.

The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Find out what it may mean for New Zealand's primary industries.

A new survey by the British Chamber of Commerce's Insights Unit of 733 businesses (97% SMEs) shows the difficulties facing British firms in using the Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) have not eased.

British bike exporters Frog and Brompton are counting the costs of an eleventh hour Brexit deal with exports suffering and price increases imminent, according to reports in the press over the past week.

The number of UK businesses exporting to the EU fell by a third in 2021, new figures revealed.

There will ‘inevitably’ be impacts on prices, says Ben Hutchins at Lye Cross Farm.

Businesses have cited Brexit after the UK recorded its worst month in over two and a half years.

Politicians and industry call for Government to level up EU import rules.

New customs rules also a factor in 41% drop in value of goods moving from UK to the EU.

‘Covid is not the problem – Brexit is the problem’, says British Beauty Council boss on sales slump.

Liz Truss had described the deal with Japan as a "landmark moment for Britain" that would boost trade by billions of pounds.

Business grew to the extent that the company began exporting successfully to Europe, where its products were becoming increasingly popular. That was, until Brexit.

New Brexit checks introduced in January are continuing to restrict trade between the UK and EU, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics.

Britain's trade performance is lagging increasingly behind that of other similar economies, according to data that suggest Brexit has had a detrimental effect on exports, on top of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several hundred tonnes of beetroot have been left to rot on Will Woodhall's farm in central England due to Brexit.

The new post-Brexit trading environment is making life difficult for UK firms trying to export to SMEs in the EU – with little government guidance on how to cut through the bureaucratese.

Brexit has dealt a blow to Andrew Duff’s business. His burgeoning sales of high end Scottish beef to Europe are on hold because his business is too small to navigate the post-Brexit customs border for now.

rish government figures come days after M&S says it is scrapping 800 lines due to ‘excessive paperwork’

Study finds higher prices and reduced competitiveness due to EU withdrawal.

The "only detectable impact" of Brexit on British businesses so far is "increased costs, paperwork and border delays", says the chair of a prominent parliamentary committee.

New rules under Brexit are causing meat processors and exporters to face an increase in export costs of up to 40 per cent, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Businesses are holding out hope for calmer times to come as Brexit has continued to cause disruption in supply chains.

Brexit issues are causing small to medium-sized (SME) manufacturers in the West Midlands “significant disruption” as they look to recover from the economic effects of Covid-19.

Research by the Centre for Business Prosperity at Aston University has shown that UK exports to the EU fell by an average of 22.9% in the first 15 months after the introduction of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, highlighting the continuing challenges that UK firms are facing.

A South Yorkshire exporter is unable to export to the EU amid the chaos stemming from the Brexit deal – threatening 30 per cent of business and a £1m sales boost.

While the picture’s hardly pretty and certainly not what advocates of Brexit envisioned, none of it surprises economists. As a former Bank of England official observed: “You run a trade war against yourself, bad things happen.”

Trade figures for City services are revised sharply lower — and they can only get worse.

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.

Brexit has severely disrupted trade between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), with total UK imports from the EU falling by almost a quarter (24.8%) and exports to the EU falling by 13.1%, according to a report for the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee.

Brexit has cost the UK economy billions of pounds in lost trade and tax revenues, according to research shared with ITV News by the Centre for European Reform. / It estimates the economy is 5% smaller than it would have been if the UK had stayed in the EU.

Imports from the EU fell by £500m in August, highlighting the “teething troubles” of the “post-Brexit universe”. / UK imports from the EU fell by £500m in August to reach £26bn, representing a 2% decline in value according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Exports to the EU also dropped in August, by £300m.

The SNP claimed a "triple whammy" of Brexit, the pandemic and US tariffs had hit Scotland's most valuable export hard.

MacDuff 1890 were supplying customers on the continent with 'Rolls Royce of Scottish Beef'.

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

UK meat exporters could permanently lose half their trade due to Brexit, according to the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).

UK meat exporters could permanently lose half their trade due to Brexit, according to the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).

Economist Duncan Weldon and the New Statesman’s polling expert explore how Brexit and austerity have damaged the UK economy and set the stage for Liz Truss’s “mismanagement.”

Figures from the Irish statistics service reveal the scale of challenges as traders grappled with new customs requirements, covid-19 restrictions and pre-Brexit stockpiling.

Government warned some businesses will collapse from extra red tape in 2022.

TRADE between Finland and the United Kingdom decreased significantly as a consequence of the end of the one-year transition period for Brexit in December, indicate preliminary statistics released by Finnish Customs.

Brexit made some businesses “suddenly uncompetitive” as costs and red tape increased, says the CEO of the British Independent Retail Association

Brexit resulted in a “substantial negative impact” for trade in both directions between the European Union and the UK, according to Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute.

Sales to Ireland, UK’s biggest market, plunge more than two-thirds.

The people of Scotland must be given a choice about their future given the damage inflicted by Brexit, Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson has said. / Marking two years since the end of the transition period to leave the European Union after 47 years of membership, Mr Robertson highlighted the negative impacts Brexit continues to have on Scotland’s economy.

Border checks said to have increased business costs and ‘suppressed’ trade, and the situation could worsen.

A no-deal Brexit would limit access to the EU and entry to markets in Africa could damage profits.

UK businesses have said the Brexit trade deal has pushed up costs, increased paperwork and delays, and put the UK at a competitive disadvantage, research from the British Chambers of Commerce has found.

Shipments of meat, such as lamb, bacon and sausages, between Britain and the European Union will be disrupted next year.

New import processes on British food after January 1 are causing problems for certain food outlets in France.

Bonded customs warehouses are in demand to manage duties / U.K. firms exporting food to Ireland snap up Dublin storage

‘What the government once called teething problems have now become a chronic condition’

Warning that crisis will ‘get worse as businesses see that there is not much going on in UK-EU negotiations’.

Strong growth elsewhere has obscured an honest debate about the cost of leaving the EU for UK financial services.

Experts found that UK services exports between 2016 and 2019 were £113 billion lower than they would have been if not for Brexit.

BRITISH companies are losing faith in the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals and many believe leaving the EU is hammering exports, Government research has revealed.

Some British firms have scaled back their operations on the continent after struggling with customs requirements.

Exports to Ireland worst affected, official figures show.

The food and beverage sector has been particularly affected by the changes, according to the ESRI.

New trade figures out today show another small increase in Britain’s trade with the EU in March after a big drop after the UK left the single market in January. But trade still remains well below pre-pandemic levels, even as trade with other nations has recovered much more strongly after the initial shock of the pandemic to be only 4% lower in March 2021 than two years previously.

Donald Tusk has warned a no-deal Brexit is‘more likely than ever.’ But if it happens it could be chaotic.

Export health certification cost over £26m from January to June this year, claims the food industry's sanitary & phytosanitary (SPS) certification working group, which wants food business operators to support e-certification trials.

The UK's new trading relationship with the European Union (EU) might be less than two weeks old but some businesses - and their European customers - are already struggling to adjust to the new trading landscape.

Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.

Businesses in Cumbria are calling on the Government to provide a support package for the aviation sector and other exporters suffering due to the economic downturn brought on by Brexit and the COVID-19 global pandemic.

It would be wrong to focus too much on 2021 when looking at the effects of Brexit on UK trade. We have just published a new paper looking at how it affected UK trade between 2015 and 2018. It shows for the first time that fears about Brexit weakened the UK’s trading position long before the vote to leave the EU even took place.

Brexit has “brought problems” for the Falkland Islands’ fishing industry, a Labour former defence minister has warned.

Here are all the questions you might have wanted to ask about fish, but were too afraid to ask.

UK clothing and lifestyle brand Joules is terminating some of its wholesale agreements with stockists in the European Union. Drapers explores who else is following suit, and what the implications are.

“It’s a disaster. They’re just stopping any exports from mainland UK over to Northern Ireland. We can’t get any trees over from any of the nurseries that would usually deal with."

Red tape means Neil Alcock’s Seiont Nurseries in Caernarfon has a four-day marathon via France, Holland and England – at £280 a trolley instead of £100

Two-thirds of companies that export to the European Union have still not taken the most basic steps to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.

Production of a sculpture for the O’Connell plinth outside Dublin’s City Hall has been delayed due to Brexit-related difficulties sourcing the correct glue.

Post-Brexit trade frictions have "significantly altered" freight traffic between Ireland and Britain and sparked a steep rise in volumes to and from Ireland and other European Union members, an Irish government agency report said on Thursday.

But so far, it’s not looking good: a hit to trade of this size entails big structural changes to the British economy, with capital and workers being shifted between sectors of the economy, businesses going bust, and higher prices for imports eroding living standards.

Brexit has delivered a £11.5 billion blow to the UK’s trade in goods since the 2016 referendum, a leading think tank said today.

Top business body calls for ‘urgent action’ to ease trading barriers.

"It’s very difficult to date for manufacturers to see any benefit from leaving," an organisation representing thousands of businesses has said.

Leaving the EU has “massively handicapped UK companies that do business in Europe", James Watt has said.

Separating out shared supply chains and integrated business models requires the most delicate surgery.

Food businesses sending products to the EU have had to fork out an extra £170m in export costs because of Brexit red tape, with the changes described as being “catastrophic” for some exporters. / Data shows costs have contributed to value of meat exports falling by 17% since 2019.

Brexit has delivered a blow of nearly £16 billion to the UK’s trade in goods since the 2016 referendum, leading experts said today.

In reality, Brexit has hobbled the UK economy, which remains the only member of the G7 — the group of advanced economies that also includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — with an economy smaller than it was before the pandemic.

LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest. / Brexit red tape means the UK has “stopped selling” many products to smaller EU countries, according to alarming new evidence of the impact on trade.

Brexit has damaged the UK's position as a gateway to Europe for imported goods and increased red tape.

Report finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with Northern Ireland.

Economists at Natixis are trying to examine the effects on the UK economy of the June 2016 referendum that triggered Brexit. They look at the different important variables and seek to determine what the overall effect of Brexit has been on the United Kingdom.

The Office for Budget Responsibility suggested leaving the EU would reduce the UK's long-term GDP by around 4% - compared to 2% for the pandemic and lockdowns.

While businesses struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, ministers are busy with commemorative coins.

Thierry Breton, who is also single market commissioner, believes downsides of leaving bloc are exposed by pandemic

Derek Twigg, of the Falkland Islands APPG, said there had ‘been a lot of concern’ over the impact of Brexit on Falkland Islands fishing exports.

BRITAIN’S departure from the European Union is having a “serious detrimental impact on export” and is “not delivering the positives that were promised”, the boss of Dorset Chamber has said.

Beauty exports from the UK to the European Union have fallen by more than $1 billion (£850 million) since the Brexit vote, a report has found.

Brexit has hit "almost every exporter in manufacturing and engineering" in Scotland, it has been claimed.

Salmon, beef, and whisky sales from the UK to the EU plummeted in January.

UK companies have seen their new orders decline at the fastest pace for nearly two years this month, with manufacturing recording the steepest fall in export sales since May 2020 as firms experienced Brexit-related constraints, a survey shows.

Fishing leaders from the north-east coast to Orkney and the Western Isles have joined calls to plead with the UK Government for a re-think of Brexit immigration rules.

The trade impact of Brexit is laid bare in the latest Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, which shows a huge surge in imports to Ireland of goods from Europe and a sharp fall in goods bought from Britain, as Irish companies opened up new supply chains to avoid tariffs and delivery delays on goods from the UK.

Close to 59 per cent fashion brands have said that Brexit has impacted their business since the end of the transition, as per a recent report. About 25 per cent of the brands surveyed said they have considered relocating all or part of their businesses and 91 per cent of them want a visa that allows creative access to EU countries cheaply and quickly.

Port of Dublin says in its Q3 report that core freight and container volumes from Britain declined by 21.2% to 537,680 units between January and September this year (Holyhead, Liverpool and Heysham).

“Brexit Opportunities Minister”. How about that for a contradiction in terms? Yet, this is a genuine post created for the oft-called “Member of Parliament for the 18th Century”, Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Increased costs and administrative hurdles are stifling the movement of horses and livestock in what were once thriving industries.

EU withdrawal fuelling higher import costs and costing British workers nearly £500 a year, says Resolution Foundation.

The International Monetary Fund ruffled feathers across the Irish Sea with its new forecast for the UK economy this week, now expecting GDP growth to slow to a paltry 1.2pc in 2023, by far the slowest amongst the G7 economies.

At this point, asymmetry of UK-EU trade dynamics verges dangerously on the edge of being normalised. Food import checks have been postponed four times over the past two years, symbolic not only of the unlevel playing field that continues to penalise British poultry meat exporters but adding to inflating production costs as a reminder that Brexit is Unfinished Business.

Empty shelves and disrupted supply chains will continue unless the food and drink sector get the support it needs to trade under new Brexit rules, the boss of a cheese firm has claimed.

Trading difficulties are behind the 38% fall.

The UK economy rediscovered a reverse gear in January as renewed coronavirus lockdowns knocked output while trade suffered a Brexit hit, according to official figures.

“The evidence we present here shows the real loss of Brexit, the overall competitiveness of the UK as a global trader," researchers say.

It is more than a month since the UK's new trading relationship with the European Union (EU) came into being but the transition has been far from easy for some businesses. From being told to set up operations in Europe, having goods stuck in port and facing increased costs to clear the border, three North East firms reveal the reality of adapting to the new rules.

Goods and services exported to bloc affected by return of customs border, EU commissioner says.

The founder of bicycle storage company Cycloc has said that the impact of Brexit on his business led to a 25% drop in sales. / The company, which has designed custom wall-mounted storage solutions for customers including Mark Cavendish, has witnessed a £100,000 drop in revenues since new rules were put in place in January 2021.

Exporters to the EU face 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent and two-day delays to trade after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has warned.

Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.

Brexit resulted in a sharp fall of Belgian exports and imports in January, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) reported on Monday.

BREXIT is making the cost of living crisis even worse after new figures revealed UK exports to the EU plunged by £20 billion last year, the SNP has warned.

Rees-Mogg’s efforts to reap economic benefits from Brexit has come up woefully short.

The former prime minister’s hollow catchphrase captured a fundamental truth—just not the one she thought it did.

Exports to Ireland saw the biggest proportionate fall out of the UK's top exporting parters following the end of the Brexit transition period in January.

Note that the slogans on these placards all represent news that has reached us about the effects of Brexit on Kent specifically. Some of these have featured in articles in Kent Bylines, as linked in the explanations below.

The number of UK businesses exporting goods to the EU fell 33 per cent to 18,357 in 2021, from 27,321 in 2020, according to data from HMRC.

Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.

The Netherlands is reaping the benefits of Brexit with a boom in British businesses seeking warehouse space.

The U.K. government just presented a 206-page manual for how the country will trade with the European Union on Jan. 1, when Britain’s exit from the 27-nation bloc becomes official 4 1/2 years after the nation voted to leave.

Many U.K. small firms are facing an “existential” threat as they grapple with obstacles Brexit has imposed on trade with the European Union, one of the country’s largest business groups said.

British traders are falling foul of a new information technology system policing goods crossing the English Channel, as companies grapple with a fresh wave of post-Brexit red tape.

Cross-border trade has received a massive boost since the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, according to figures published by the UK Government.

And the call comes as a Gloucestershire bike specialist tells Punchline its export business has been deflated by a lack of post-Brexit trading agreement.

A study has revealed trade regimes that Papua New Guinea could face possible consequences of canned tuna exports on post-brexit with its trade to United Kingdom (UK) market when it leaves the European Union, says a researcher during the recent 2018 PNG Update in Port Moresby.

Jason Croke tackles some technical aspects that are continuing to confuse businesses who are importing goods from the EU, in this case import duty and the rules of origin.

Two and a half weeks after the “easiest deal in history” was finally agreed, and the impact on the UK’s ability to trade is becoming clearer. It doesn’t look much like the promised sunlit uplands.

A new report exposes in detail the impact that Brexit is having on businesses - with the effects getting worse over time, not better.

The UK’s biggest shellfish exporter says it’s opening an EU base to avoid paying up to £1 million a year in Brexit-related red tape.

The UK’s biggest shellfish exporter says it’s opening an EU base to avoid paying up to £1 million a year in Brexit-related red tape.

Archie Norman, the chair of Marks and Spencer, revealed the mountain of bureaucracy that is making international trade impossible for small producers, leading many to give up entirely.

A pioneering exporter who sold lobsters to Europe from the Yorkshire coast has been forced to wind up his 40-year-old family business – because of Brexit red tape.

Stock regularly held up in Dublin Port for three to five days at a time, with some consignments delayed for up to 10 days.

Exporters forced to fill in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 health certificates over eight-month period.

One small business owner said her net profit margins had dropped to zero in the years since Brexit.

Cross-border tax complexities cost the UK economy £47.6bn in lost revenue last year, an average revenue loss of 16 per cent on total EU exports, according to fresh industry data shared with City A.M. this morning.

The logistics sector, with its daily responsibility for keeping goods, food and medical supplies crisscrossing the UK, was hit by a double whammy in 2020 and the opening two months of 2021.

Great British sausages and mince will now require health certificates for exports to Northern Ireland in the latest example of Brexit red tape.

120,000 exporters need to prove source of goods going to EU. / Carmakers face existential threat without rules of origin deal.

Fears of new disruption to fresh produce supply from EU when import controls hit in October.

“This shows how the post-Brexit increase in custom costs to UK consumers is really biting," a senior manager at an accountancy firm has said.

Research released today (19 October 2022) by the ESRI shows reductions in UK to EU goods trade by 16% and trade from the EU to UK by 20% relative to the scenario in which Brexit had not occurred.

Public opinion shifted against Brexit after a deluge of damning evidence on economic costs.

Theresa May narrowly avoided a critical defeat in parliament. / Boris Johnson resigned as foreign secretary, using his House of Commons speech to implore MPs to "save Brexit". / BrexitCentral's Hugh Bennett says that despite fury in the Tory ranks, Mrs May is still on course to deliver on her White Paper. / Aidan Flynn on 80% of Irish/EU exports going through the UK.

Those sunlit uplands, eh? Another Brexit blow has been delivered to UK exports, and the cheese industry now faces upheaval.

Four hours of Brexit talks over Northern Ireland ended with 'no substantive agreement' - with the UK threatening to extend a sausage trading deadline while the EU threatened tariffs in return.

Brexit’s impact on trade is laid bare in new Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, which shows a surge in imports to Ireland of goods from Europe and a sharp fall in goods bought from Britain.

Exports to EU halt due to border delays and paperwork.

Comes as poll shows a fifth of companies stopped trading with EU during the month

CSO data shows biggest fall is in chemicals, food and live animals.

The figures show Brexit-related problems are structural, not "teething problems".

Trade barriers erected in Boris Johnson’s deal have cost exporters more than £1.1 billion since the start of the year, the Food and Drink Federation said.

The UK’s export market suffered a total fall of £750 million - a 75.5 per cent decline from the previous January, the FDF said.

Sales to the EU dropped more significantly in 2021 than exports to any other country in the world, the ONS data shows, as UK to EU exports nosedived 12 per cent between January and December of last year, compared to the previous year.

State’s 2016-2019 services exports £126bn higher than projections based on prior trends

New figures show Northern Ireland’s share of UK exports to Ireland surging thanks to the protocol trade deal.

Potato industry says it will take years to fill gap in Irish potato seed market following ban on UK seed.

SCOTLAND's salmon industry is facing "acute" labour shortages due to Brexit despite average salaries of £36,000, business leaders have warned.

From confused carriers to mind-boggling bureaucracy, Lucy Reece Raybould, CEO of British Footwear Association (BFA), tells Drapers how Brexit is still impacting trade for UK businesses.

This small sector has been promised benefits that will not materialise.

A mussel fishing and farming company in North Wales fears that it and other firms that export live mussels and other bivalve shellfish to the EU will be put out of business by Brexit, reports Tim Oliver

BREXIT is set to cost the UK between £2 and £4 billion in lost food exports across its first full year out of the European Union.

Disruption at Dover blamed for hit to UK supply chains.

'Food exports to EU have declined by 50 to 60 per cent in January,' one leader says.

Customs duties rose to record £2.2bn in first six months since trade deal came into effect on 1 January.

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

A poll by Opinium shows that trade with the EU is considered the most important political issue for exporting firms.

77% of firms, for which the Brexit deal is applicable, say it is not helping them increase sales or grow their business. / More than half (56%) of firms face difficulties adapting to the new rules for trading goods. / Almost half (45%) face difficulties adapting to the new rules for trading services, and a similar number (44%) report difficulties obtaining visas for staff.

Business leaders have called for urgent removal of red tape that is damaging trade between the UK and the EU.

Prime minister accused of not being ‘honest’ with voters about downsides of his agreement - risking their anger later on.

From 1 January firms face a barrage of new red tape while others are still waiting on vital decisions about how they will trade with the EU in the post-Brexit era.

The UK’s much-vaunted post-Brexit trade deals will only increase the country’s GDP by a minuscule amount over the next 15 years, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) reveals today.

Survey of exporters shows increased pessimism about benefits of post-Brexit trade deals. / British firms are increasingly pessimistic about the benefits of post-Brexit free trade deals, according to the government’s own research.

Scotland’s Constitution Secretary has said trade problems in the wake of the Brexit deal are “far more than teething troubles”, as he urged the UK Government to take a more co-operative approach with the EU.

Business chiefs and economists say huge disruption lies ahead if Downing Street triggers Article 16.

Business leaders say the second anniversary of Brexit today has been marked by continuing difficulties for exporters trying to trade with the EU.

UK and European negotiators are meeting later today for yet another round of Brexit trade talks.

Britain’s bigget seaport says Brexit bureaucracy could bite when mass travel makes a comeback.

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

Angela Merkel has warned that a failure to strike a free-trade deal would be a defeat for both the EU and UK.

Mr Drakeford, who is stepping down next month after five years as First Minister, said Brexit had left Wales a billion pounds worse off and cut off from the rest of the world.

Foreign secretary attempts to blame Brussels for red tape hitting exporters.

Leaving the single market will come as a huge blow to the services sector. Rather than acknowledging that fact, our ruling class have opted to press on.

Immediately after the referendum, sterling depreciated. This brought forward the impact on household incomes of what would otherwise be a slow burn change for the UK economy.

Real pay set to be £470 lower per worker each year, say top economists. / “We can’t blame Brexit for all of the 5.2 per cent GDP shortfall … but it’s apparent that Brexit is largely to blame,” said John Springford, author of the CEF study.

The British Meat Processors Association has published a Brexit Impact Report which draws on the experiences of meat exporters to date and says problems with new rules at the border are not going away and predicts a permanent reduction in trade.

British companies have filled in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates since Britain left the EU.

According to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), shortages across various industries have been “exacerbated” by new immigration rules for EU citizens and trade barriers with the bloc.

Exports of electrical appliances for reuse in Europe have been “decimated” since the UK officially left the European Union due to confusion over new rules, Environcom says.

One of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries has had to stop supplying plants to Northern Ireland after new Brexit restrictions came into force in January.

The UK fell out of Germany's top five trading partners in December, data from the country's national statistical office Destatis shows.

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

Three years on since the UK left the European Union (EU), a Midlands business owner has described the move as a "complete disaster". / Nic Laurens, who runs an abrasives supply firm in Shropshire, moved 90% of his company to the Republic of Ireland in order to remain in the EU.

Some of these are hopefully short-term issues and can be recovered from. Another problem, however, is contributing to the hardship faced by Scottish households and will do so for the long term: Brexit.

New Impact Report from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) reveals the real cost of Brexit to the UK meat industry.

The UK’s official departure from the EU took place on January 1, 2021. The Brexit roll-out, not unexpectedly, has been awash with problems.

On April 14, 2021, the Warsaw Institute, together with The Warsaw Institute Review quarterly, had the honor of hosting another online event – the Diplomacy Talks Series. The title of the discussion, moderated by the president of the Warsaw Institute, Tomasz Kijewski, was “BREXIT and its importance for Europe and the Polish diaspora in Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.

31 January marks the two-year anniversary of the UK’s official withdrawal from the EU. Investment Monitor examines how hard Brexit has hit the UK economy so far.

"It's slow, it's outdated, it's challenging in a number of ways we never expected," says Charlie Samways.

Brexit has caused a crisis for British manufacturers who export into Europe – and things could be about to get even worse...

Fashion company boss says only way for many firms to survive as costs soar is to open bases in France, costing vital UK jobs.

Over 6,000 checks have now been carried out on British goods by Belgium’s Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) since January 2021.

It comes as a British wine wholesaler ‘left Brexitland for good’ over paperwork, and is flourishing by all accounts.

In this week's Brexit downsides, extra food labelling costing up to £250mn, a huge drop in overseas students, veterinary shortages in NI, and more.

The stock exchange ‘going down the gurgler’, a ‘hammer blow’ to the food industry, married Britons punished, and some rare Brexit upsides

First-half sales fall £2bn, says industry body, as barriers are compounded by staff shortages.

Legal experts at Walker Morris discuss what food businesses need to know about phases 2 and 3 of implementing checks at the Great Britain/EU border now the Brexit transition period has ended.

Proposed procedures for importing and exporting of goods are “convoluted, expensive and will seriously hamper trade with other countries”, says BMPA.

There's been a lot of talk about free trade in the Brexit debate, but what exactly is a free trade agreement and how does it differ from what the UK has had with the EU?

It may have been over three years since the UK formally left the European Union but UK brands and retailers continue to face a slew of challenges in navigating post-Brexit trade. Drapers identifies the persistent pain points and how they are being managed.

The British economy is beginning to understand what it is to be tipped over the cliff edge. Cries of alarm and distress flares are going up across the length and breadth of the country, and from industries as diverse as fishing and finance and from pigs to paint.

Northern Ireland has been hardest hit, with exports to the EU falling by a third between 2018 and 2021, analysis of official figures shows.

Panorama follows companies on the Brexit frontline as they navigate their way through Britain’s new trading relationship with Europe.

Six years after the referendum on June 23, 2016, if we put aside the profound political consequences – a divided England, Scotland and Northern Ireland pulling away, a more isolated country – what is the economic toll?

A Kent brewery says it has seen a 95% drop in export sales since the UK left the EU.

Yes, that headline is correct. The UK’s trade performance this year fell to its worst level since records began in 1955. And the cause, according to analysts and a headline article in the FT today – Brexit.

Tor Mackenzie, Founder of MAD Yorkshire takes stock of the issues created by Brexit and how the industry can bounce back.

There's been a huge fall in trade between the UK and Germany during the first month of the new trading relationship between the UK and the EU.

Organisers behind the Museum of Brexit want the public to donate money and mementos to create a permanent exhibition devoted to the UK’s exit from the EU.

Johnson is at the mercy of his cabinet. The trouble is, as Leavers, none of them will face up to our post-EU crisis either

In January, UK goods exporters soon discovered the ‘tariff and quota-free’ deal Boris Johnson signed with the EU did not offer frictionless trade.

It would be fair to say that businesses in Somerset are now really starting to feel the effects of Brexit and our new trade deals with the EU and the rest of the world. From all the businesses I have spoken to so far the effects have ranged from bureaucratic nightmares with unnecessary paperwork and extra costs to complete shutdowns of exports.

Bristol record store Idle Hands has announced it will shut at its current Stokes Croft address, with a crowdfunder launched to alleviate the costs of being closed, and to go toward helping it set up in a new, more central, location.

The United Kingdom will delay the introduction of border checks on imports from the European Union by as much as six months in a bid to avoid piling on the pain for British business and choking off vital food supplies.

The idea that Britain can leave the European Union and maintain frictionless trade with the bloc of 27 countries is officially dead.

Britain has dramatically increased the value of weaponry and defence equipment it sells to the world’s most repressive regimes since vows by senior ministers to expand arms exports after the Brexit vote.

For the first time since 1950, it's no longer among Germany's top 10 trading partners as first-half exports plummet 11%

The UK debate about Brexit’s impact on the economy has ranged from non-existent to unserious. Labour is avoiding the subject, to try to regain lost voters in pro-Brexit constituencies, and the government immediately changes the subject to vaccines or free trade deals.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany's top 10 trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe's largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany's top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe's largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany’s top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe’s largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Britain on Tuesday said it would retain the European 'CE' safety mark for products indefinitely rather than scrap it following the country's departure from the European Union, in a move welcomed by businesses as a pragmatic step.

Britain's biggest car plant has so far weathered the coronavirus pandemic and a major corporate restructuring. But it may not survive Brexit.

Britain's specialism in traded services, some of which can be delivered electronically, has led Brexiters to claim that the country's trade will inevitably unmoor itself from Europe. In fact, Britain is not about to enter a "post-geography trading world".

Boris Johnson’s government faces deep economic problems. / UK lagging behind major peers on productivity and investment. / “... From a 16% devaluation of the pound to an eye-watering slide in trade and investment, Brexit’s impact is plain to see. The data have only reinforced our view that life outside of the EU would leave the UK worse off.”

British companies trading with Europe will have to absorb a post-Brexit bureaucracy burden and fill in an extra 215m customs declarations at a cost of about £7bn a year, according to government officials.

Letter says government needs to act quickly to resolve customs issues faced by exporters following Brexit

Years after Britain quit the European Union, its businesses are still suffering from lower sales as red tape makes it harder to export to the 27-nation bloc.

The chair of the British Chambers of Commerce, Shevaun Haviland, says British exporters have faced "huge issues" trying to sell their goods abroad since Brexit.