Brexit checks start tomorrow. Red tape and rotting food at the ports ?

[Likkleredridinghood]

So after being delayed 3 times full custom controls on imports from the EU to the Uk will finally begin. Business groups won't guarantee it will go smoothly but my guess is that it won't be a total disaster as a fair amount of stock piling will have undoubtedly taken place. However long term it will mean less choice, higher prices and more strain on small british businesses. What's the bet the covid uptick will conveniently be blamed ?

No worries , they'll just import from Oz and NZ now. Or Lichtenstein.

Foreign exporters to UK will also be harmed. Maybe it will make certain EU countries ease up a bit on their red tape

@thereisonlyoneofme

Foreign exporters to UK will also be harmed. Maybe it will make certain EU countries ease up a bit on their red tape

It's not the EU's red tape - it is UK red tape. UK helped to write these rules which apply to 3rd party countries.

How will it affect small British businesses? I buy some food from local producers, how will they be affected? Sorry, don't understand how it all works!

@Svara

How will it affect small British businesses? I buy some food from local producers, how will they be affected? Sorry, don't understand how it all works!

Any import to the UK will be subject to administration and any import duties & tariffs. For EU goods this just means that they go onto an equal footing in line with any other country.

The difference is that we previously had the benefit of being in the club of the EU with our trading neighbors, and that the change has been postponed until now.

There will be delays at the border, compounded by other current logistics issues.

For small businesses they either import or don’t, and their supply chain either imports or doesn’t

@Svara

How will it affect small British businesses? I buy some food from local producers, how will they be affected? Sorry, don't understand how it all works!

In the case of local food producers, in theory there is no impact - on the assumption that they are producing food locally and transporting it locally Their supplies may come from elsewhere

Well the importers will be facing similar problems to our exporters , which came into effect earlier .Maybe this will encourage the French to loosen up a bit !

France has 27 other countries to export to.

Saw a piece yesterday where a European exporter decided that she was reluctant to export to the uk as the red tape/bureaucracy is difficult and time consuming and would lead to the spoiling of the goods. ( I forget what they exported.)

I think we might find some goods tricky to obtain but maybe other doors will open.

Who knows?

@thereisonlyoneofme
Why should the French loosen up a bit?
We chose to leave and they don't need the added bureaucracy.

The bureaucracy is on the UK side as I understand it. Because the UK is now a 3rd country for the EU - no longer in the club, so no longer enjoys the benefits. The 27 EU countries can still trade without the red tape to one another and to any other country they have a trade agreement with insofar those trade rules allow.