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Hauliers have become own customs agents after Brexit, MSPs told
Updated: February 18 2021, 8.13pm
Long queues were seen at borders following the end of the transition period (Gareth Fuller/PA)
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Brexit has caused hauliers to become “their own customs agents” due to shortages, MSPs have been told.
Appearing before the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee at Holyrood, Martin Reid, the Scotland and Northern Ireland director for the Road Haulage Association (RHA), said his members had been forced to recruit and train administrative staff due to a lack of qualified customs officers able to help exports move swiftly.
Brexit has hit almost every exporter in manufacturing and engineering in Scotland, it has been claimed. Scottish Engineering chief executive Paul Sheerin told a Holyrood committee just 25% of respondents to a recent survey felt no impact of Brexit on their exports and these were companies who do not export at all. Mr Sheerin said: Unfortunately, that just reflects the companies that are manufacturing who don t export at all. Which suggests that almost every exporter in the manufacturing and engineering space is suffering detriment as a result of the end of the transition period and the new processes that we have.
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