As someone who works giving advice on Customs matters to businesses and private individuals the whole thing is a strawberry floating mess and it's only going to get worse. Far, far worse.
On the plus side my job is looking pretty secure for the foreseeable future.
Cheeky Devlin wrote:As someone who works giving advice on Customs matters to businesses and private individuals the whole thing is a strawberry floating mess and it's only going to get worse. Far, far worse.
On the plus side my job is looking pretty secure for the foreseeable future.
Also it must make your job a bit easier, as you now just throw your hands up in the air when ever asks you for advice on Europe.
Whenever someone asks about what's going to happen post-Brexit I do. If only because NOTHING has been decided. Some people think we know what's going to happen, when in reality we're as in the dark as everyone else.
I read the BBC article about the proposed "Temporary Customs union" and it's so pie-in-the-sky it's ridiculous. Clearly set out by someone with absolutely no idea of how customs works in practice.
UK position paper opposes Irish border posts The government has said there must be an "unprecedented solution" for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit.
The position paper sets out two "broad approaches" to future customs arrangements that the UK hopes will help to prevent physical customs posts along the Irish border.
The suggestions are a "new customs partnership" or a "highly streamlined customs arrangement".
The partnership model would "align" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in "no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland," the paper claims.
The paper suggests the second, "highly-streamlined" arrangement could include:
- a continued waiver on submitting entry/exit declarations; - continued membership of the Common Transit Convention to help Northern Ireland and Irish companies transit goods - a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses - a "cross-border trade exemption" which would mean no new customs processes at all for smaller traders
The paper also dismisses the idea of a customs border in the Irish Sea, saying it would be economically and constitutionally unviable.
a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses
Does this mean corporations can basically do what the strawberry float they like when it comes to cheap labour and products? Excellent
It's more likely to be something along the line of the existing Approved Exporter Scheme. They look at the processes and systems that a business has in place and if they are sufficiently robust they are able to use more simplified procedures when moving goods. Something like this implies that they would look at a business compliance history and processes and if they can show they are trustworthy and know what they are doing, then they are able to just move goods across the border with reduced reporting required. Of course this is all dependent on the EU and Ireland agreeing to it.
a new "trusted trader" arrangement for larger businesses
Does this mean corporations can basically do what the strawberry float they like when it comes to cheap labour and products? Excellent
It's more likely to be something along the line of the existing Approved Exporter Scheme. They look at the processes and systems that a business has in place and if they are sufficiently robust they are able to use more simplified procedures when moving goods. Something like this implies that they would look at a business compliance history and processes and if they can show they are trustworthy and know what they are doing, then they are able to just move goods across the border with reduced reporting required. Of course this is all dependent on the EU and Ireland agreeing to it.
With ship importers, they have to electronically supply manifests and a random number of creates are searched; to check if they contain what the manifests say they contain. I'm guessing it would be the same. Everything has to be sent through electronically and then random trucks are stop and searched.