Shelves in shops in Ireland will continue to empty post-Brexit because of the need to complete hours of customs paperwork, the Irish Parliament has heard.
Customs officials have denied goods are being held up at ports by post-Brexit red tape and blamed companies for failing to fill in paperwork correctly.
Customs officials have denied goods are being held up at ports by post-Brexit red tape and blamed companies for failing to fill in paperwork correctly.
Irish import and export supply chains have been crippled by “regulatory paralysis” in the early days of post-Brexit trade with Britain, a Wexford TD claims.Verona Murphy, a former head of the Irish
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A packet of Percy Pig sweets now costs £1.65
Customers in Ireland could soon be deprived of Marks & Spencer’s Percy Pigs, with the famed sweets among the first items to fall foul of Brexit red tape.
The farmyard-themed favourites are now subject to complex “rules of origin” regulations agreed as part of the UK’s new trade deal with the EU, which see tariffs imposed on goods initially manufactured within the bloc if a UK firm re-exports them to the continent.
The problem extends well beyond German-manufactured Percy Pigs, with the British Retail Consortium warning at least 50 of its members, all of them large UK retailers, are now facing such tariffs.