Brexit taskforce meets to ensure businesses get the support they need
The Brexit Business Taskforce meets to identify challenges facing traders and find solutions to outstanding issues.
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Government will “pull out all the stops” to help businesses adjust to new rules;
Compliance with border rules remains high and there are still no queues at ports as flows approach normal levels.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, will chair a meeting of the Brexit Business Taskforce today with leaders of the UK business community from the CBI, FSB, IoD, BCC and Make UK. He will reaffirm the government’s commitment to help companies adjust to new trading rules with the EU that have been in effect for nearly a month.
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That means checks are focused on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Mr Leheny said the protocol governing the new regime was better than nothing.
“At the minute we are taking a glass half full view of it. Our job is to make sure that goods get from A to B.”
There is a lot more administration and red tape
Seamus Leheny, Logistics UK
He said it was an admin-heavy process but the advance declarations system seemed to be working.
Under the terms of the protocol, Northern Ireland remains in the EU single market for goods.
Northern Ireland will also apply EU customs rules at its ports, even though it is still part of the UK customs territory.