Important Customs news for UK/Eu leatherworkers

[Arturomex]

Fred,

I've tried to find these 800 new rules and the  proposed 1,200 new EU regulations but I've come up dry. Could you please point me in the right direction?

Regards,

Arturo

[Klara]

I second that request. For I don't believe the EU capable of passing 800 rules in 4 weeks

@Constabulary No idea who CS is, but there's enough leather to be had in EU countries. France, Italy, Czech Republic...

 

[Constabulary]

@Klara Not a leather supplier - CS is short for College Sewing Machine Parts

Just got a response form another UK supplier - quote:

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This brexit thing is a complete cock up... we should have never left... as from the 1st of July the tax systems to send orderd out to the EU have changed... So for the last month Ive been trying to sort this out... I expect it will take another week or so...

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by Constabulary

[fredk]

I cannot show you the info sent to me by my MLA - a government minister. Its confidential in nature

However, scan down through this on-line news story. about 1/4 down, just above a photo of M. Martin

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1463424/brexit-live-news-ursula-von-der-leyen-visit-ireland-micheal-martin-northern-ireland

and The Belfast Telegraph news report

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/eu-dropped-800-new-regulations-on-northern-ireland-without-notice-says-government-40654157.html

[Klara]

@Constabulary Any chance you could find what you need here: https://www.armator.eu/index_en.html ? 

I've discovered that there is is very little I want to buy that I need to get from the UK (mainly books). And strangely enough, British goods (i.e. food) have not yet disappeared from French supermarkets...

Edited July 29, 2021 by Klara

[chrisash]

15 hours ago, Arturomex said:

Hardly accurate, Fred. Casting Mexico as the EU is a poor choice of example. The UK knew what they were signing up for when they inked the Northern Ireland Protocol. A deal is a deal. You can't blame the EU for Boris Johnson's stupidity.

As with this treaty, the framework was the treaty but both sides were able to make adjustments for difficulties not foreseen in the treaty. just like many other treaties. In this case there is obvious differences in the interpretation  and the EU will not negotiate them. the sole purpose is to stop goods going to Eire from Northern Ireland. The 800 new items has been mentioned by the relevant minister but not yet published to my knowledge.

For one supermarket truck transiting from Great Britain mainland to Northern Ireland now needs 750 pages on average of paperwork plus vets checks on all meat products

Whilst we have the nuclear option to use article 16 of the treaty to tear it up, we have not yet used it but tried continually to negotiate a settlement that is fair to Northern Ireland

[Arturomex]

Thanks, Fred. Appreciate it. I'm curious to see what these 800 items are.

The following is from a reddit posting:

"Once again: the UK government agreed to this. The NIP makes it quite clear that Northern Ireland will remain in the single market and therefore subject to EU regulations. No ifs, no buts.

But let's not be naive about this: when they signed it, they didn't do so in good faith. They just needed an "oven ready" deal to go into an election with. They never had the slightest intention of upholding their obligations and weaseling out of them was always the plan. This will have consequences, and not only because the EU will retaliate for breaking the treaty. Those checks and rules are not there because the EU wanted them there. They are there to keep NI in the single market. The only reason NI is still in the single market is because of the border that will have to be set up around it if it leaves. No amount of twisting and turning is going to change the fact that there is a legal and practical requirement for a hard border between two different regulatory and customs regimes. The UK government is simply trying to lift the NIP out of the wider context of Brexit so that they can ignore this.

The NIP is not the problem, Brexit is. The UK can either deal with the NIP, or it can deal with the consequences of breaking the Withdrawal Agreement. And what the EU will do will be the least of their worries. It's what's going to happen in Northern Ireland if the political settlement falls apart because a land border is set up. Of course, the UK government is self serving, amoral and irresponsible enough to break the treaty anyway. Making any further concessions to or deals with such people is pointless. First legal action (which they'll refuse to comply with) and then suspension of the treaties and sanctions."

There's an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." Sadly, we are.

Regards,

Arturo

 

[fredk]

I dunno what 'Reddit' is.

But so far its been the Eu breaking the rules which were agreed. Assurances nothing would hamper drugs supply; the Eu blocked supplies of Astra Covid Vaccines back in January. They have imposed regs on the transportation of horses; a judge had to over-rule the suddenly imposed regs which would have led to the deaths of horses coming from GB. Eu imposed regs on 'soil' imported into N.I. Farmers and building contractors could not bring their machinery back from Scotland if there was so much as a speck of dirt on them - I do not exaggerate. One farmer who owns land in N.I. and Scotland could not bring some of his machinery back, it was stopped by customs 'in case' there was 'soil' on it. N.I. produces a lot of meat, it is sent over to GB for further processing, eg made into oven-ready meals, pies etc, but from this weekend the shops cannot bring that produce back over! And there is so much more which is known on the local scene and not reported by papers. Eg, petrol stations ran out of diesel fuel for a period of 5 days. The main fuel suppliers had problems with some of the new Eu regs (some of those 800 which have been applied in the last few weeks)

It was the Eu which demanded the Irish Sea Border.

After enquiring why my post has been late, the Royal Mail tells me all post is now going to and from GB through customs checks which is making an average delay of 5 to 6 days per item. Today I received a packet from GB posted on July 19th, (10 days) yesterday I received a packet from China posted there on July 20th. (8 days)

[Klara]

You write about problems with British customs. How exactly is the EU responsible for them being unable to cope with the work their government created for them?