£100,000 Of Tariffs Slapped On Bananas

[Sunk]

Can someone please explain what is happening with regard these imports.
I thought Brexit would free us to trade with the rest of the world. In practice it seems the Government is using the opportunity make loads of money for mr Rishi.
Presumably all this extra cost will be made up by higher prices for the consumer.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-tariffs-bananas-africa-farmers-b1791225.html

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royfromaus

I don’t give a toss about Ghanaian bananas. I’m even fed up with realising how utterly useless the present Government is.
I feel sorry for the banana importers, the cheesemakers, the fishermen who were relying on Boris to get Brexit done, and they now find themselves very badly let down.

[Khandro]

OMG are we going to have thread by this newbie, every time some anomaly appears in the news-starved left-leaning MSM ?

[ynnafymmi]

@22.12.I dont watch Twitter very often,but yesterday i logged on to a story about a Brixham fish company owner.He did most of his business with the EU,but at the referendum voted to leave the EU.Errr...did he think cutting off from his main customers would enhance his business?I dont do links,sorry.

[Old_Geezer]

i business if you don't get information one way, you find another. If info isn't available you have your back up plan for risk avoidance in a worst case scenario. You don't sit back confident of fire-fighting whatever might occur, the responsibilities of planning and acting are your own.

[Sunk]

Government advice to firms - Move abroad.

// In an extraordinary twist to the Brexit saga, UK small businesses are being told by advisers working for the Department for International Trade (DIT) that the best way to circumvent border issues and VAT problems that have been piling up since 1 January is to register new firms within the EU single market, from where they can distribute their goods far more freely. //

You couldn’t make it up.

[Khandro]

//Government advice to firms - Move abroad.//

That isn't the advice at all, opening an office in another country doesn't mean 'moving abroad'. Easy Jet opened an office in the EU a year ago in readiness for Brexit as did many other businesses

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OG

The Trade Deal with the EU was signed at the last minute, a week before we left the EU. Firms cannot plan for something they don’t have details of.
Firms’ first stop for info on the free trade deal was the Government, but they were sadly of no use.
It is only now, a month later, that the intricacies of how exports are done, that some of the pitfalls are being discovered, usually at great expense to the companies involved.

[Paigntonian]

Teething problems.

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Khandro.

EasyJet opened EasyJet Europe after the Referendum result. It’s office is in Vienna, Austria.
// Many aircraft currently registered to EasyJet UK will be reregistered to EasyJet Europe, and those staff employed by EasyJet UK but based elsewhere in the European Union will be transferred to EasyJet Europe.

So the employees will pay tax in Austria (and other places). Bookings taken in Austria will pay tax to the Austrian Government. All rents, purchases, utilities will benefit Austria, not the UK.

[Khandro]

'The company said the Vienna move would make it a pan-European aviation group – with three airlines based in Austria, Switzerland and the UK – that would be controlled by easyJet plc, which would remain listed on the London Stock Exchange.

EasyJet, which employs 4,000 staff in continental Europe, said the move would not affect UK jobs – its 6,000 employees in Britain would continue to be based in Luton and its 11 other bases across the country.'

[Khandro]

I should have added that the 4,000 staff in continental Europe were already paying tax there, ditto the rents of properties etc.

[Canary42]

The words on the bus were all damn lies
All damn lies
All damn lies
The words on the bus were all damn lies
Coming from Boris

[ynnafymmi]

@12.37.The Labour Party didnt help much either.They elected to the leadership a dithering old pseudo-Brexiteering idiot.The Labour Party leadership did b*gg*r all to oppose Brexit.Signed-Angry from Aberdeen.