UK EXPORTS FACE RE-IMPOSITION OF EU IMPORT DUTIES FOR FIRST TIME IN 43 YEARS IN POST-BREXIT WORLD
September 1st, 2016
AS the British government starts the complex process of considering the form of the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union (EU), one issue will be foremost in the minds of exporters – tariffs.
These have not existed for UK exports to other members of the EU since 1973, when Britain joined what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC). Then there were just eight other members (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), but of course, the EU has expanded dramatically since then to today’s ...
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