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@matthewsemple Phil doesn't know much about it I'm afraid, he just goes with tropes and made up figures. Yes buying things from the UK is slightly more complicated if you are buying something on ebay for example, because of how VAT is handled, but it's the same in the other direction, because they haven't implemented a good system - both the EU and the UK. That was however to be expected after all we left the single market, so something was needed, but they haven't thought through. For the bigger businesses they know what they are doing, if they export to the EU there is a good chance they export to elsewhere too, so they are used to customs. We have a Free trade agreement for most things, so it only affects a few industries and really it's all down to a few forms. Don't forget it's the EU that want all this complexity, not us...We are just going along because that's how they want to do it. We could have mutual recognition and it would be hardly any issues at all, but they aren't interested. And as most of them don't rely on the ballot box for their job, they don't care, and doing it this way means the EU get more money from EU citizens.
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@RankinMsP Oh I only drop in now and again. I offered to come on his videos and be interviewed many times to correct the lies he spreads, but for some reason he refuses to be informed and would rather make stuff up. Obviously he has a captive customer base he doesn't want to lose by showing how little he actually knows. This one was presented to me in my feed so I watched to see if he is still as clueless, and he is !!!
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But exports and imports are way up with the EU, in fact last year they were both the highest they have ever been, up 17.5 % (362bn) for exports and 21.6% (452.5 bn) for imports. Don't forget that these "barriers" are designed so the EU gets revenue (not the Nation states the EU). The EU takes 75% of any duties they can charge, and they tell member states what rules they have to use because the EU controls the Customs Union. Previously the EU took 75% of all the import duties they forced us to charge, now they don't get that any more, they want to make sure that EU businesses can't evade paying them by importing via the UK to avoid the EU's protectionist taxes. We don't need to charge them because we aren't protectionist, and we would rather the EU had the same attitude, but if it has to be Tit for Tat, then so be it. At least any duties paid entering the UK will go to HMRC rather than the EU> Things are going great, the Germans have even tried to reach out to us to bypass the EU, because it is a nightmare for them, we are one of their biggest markets for cars, and German car sales to the UK have halved since 2016, seems we don't want German cars any more, I wonder why?
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@emm_arr No it's not. Import Duties are set by the EU, the money goes 75% to the EU and the member state where the import happens retains only 25%. Look it up, for some reason I can't post links, but if you search for EU Own Resources, and click on the link Customs Duties it will show you, here I will quote it for you: "Member States are responsible for the collection of customs duties, according to the rules established by Council Regulation implementing the Own Resources Decision. Member States must have adequate control infrastructure to ensure that their administrations, especially their customs authorities, carry out their tasks in an appropriate manner. In the period 2021-2027, Member States will retain 25% of the collected customs duties. This not only covers collection costs but also serves as an incentive to ensure a diligent collection of the amounts due."
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@emm_arr Well yes actually. They are proud of it too!. Just google "EU Own Resources" and look at the EU commission pages and you will see that is what happens. Where do you think the money goes? See this is the problem, you don't know how it works at all...Phil doesn't have a clue.
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So why is there such high unemployment in the EU, and yet loads of jobs available here... It's a mystery. And the UK had the second highest FDI in 2022 in Europe, pretty much where we have always been, in the EU or out. Don't you guys ever check what's really happening? Or do you just get your information from clueless Phil here?
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@erikaverink8418 I guess you don't win many arguments then if that's what you use. Most chip shops do not use imported frozen chips, they make their own. Iceland and Norway are not in the EU so no difference there. The Netherlands would be much better off outside the EU. They are closing down your farms forcing people off the land they have owned and farmed for centuries. I lived in the Netherlands for over a decade and I hardly met any Dutch people who thought the EU was a good idea, they all hated them and wanted out.
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@matthewsemple Customs is very straightforward, if you just take the time to find out what you have to do, which quite frankly is not much, a couple of forms and away you go. There were things to do before Brexit too, it was just done after the shipment instead of before, and was about the same amount of paperwork, in fact it was even more tricky than it is now. When you exported goods before Brexit you had to declare it for VAT purposes, and the partner on the other side had to declare it too, if they failed to do so you would end up liable for the VAT.
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@RankinMsP Yes well the EU controls Food via the Common Agricultural Policy, I was not referring to Food but to goods. The EU controls food and Fishing through the CAP and CFP, and how about that, those are the areas where there is the most complications. This is all stuff that the EU wants, not the food importers in the EU, they are the ones who need to do the customs clearance, it is not the job of the exporter to handle import customs it is the job of the importer, these are problems for the EU customer, who obviously want the food as they have ordered it. When you order something from China the Chinese supplier does not clear it through UK customs, that's your job as the importer to the UK, same for every transaction. The EU has made it as complicated as it could for the things it controls, for their own businesses. Basically they set out to punish us for leaving and have ended up punishing their own businesses, which is exactly what you expect from a centrally controlled bureaucracy, that's what they do best...Bureaucracy.
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Imports and exports make up about 12% of GDP.
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@francesconicoletti2547 Yes and the importers know how to fill in a couple of forms, so it has no effect whatsoever. If it's your business, you make it your business to know the rules.
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@emm_arr That's pretty hilarious. Those Russians eh? You wonder why we vote for anything any more, just ask Vladimir what he wants to happen and we do that. It's amazing really the power he has in the Kremlin, Brexit, Trump, he probably decided who won the Eurovision Song contest too.
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@emm_arr You think Putin can influence our votes? Don't be daft. It's much easier to have a scapegoat than face reality.
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@fitzstv8506 There are no tariffs or restrictions on Aerospace parts so it makes no difference at all to Rolls Royce. Just in Time has been working fine since we left.
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@fitzstv8506 Things are going fine. You guys are the ones telling yourselves they are not....Just look around, loads of jobs, wages rising, exports and imports up, meanwhile recessions and stagnation and unemployment in the EU. Thank goodness we got out when we did. Saved a fortune into the bargain !
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@fitzstv8506 Honestly mate you need to get some better sources of information. Sterling had risen dramatically in the lead up to the referendum, following the referendum it dropped back to where it has been for most of the life of the Euro. The rise was the anomaly not the return to its natural level, just look at the GBP/EUR chart on maximum time span, you can easily google it. France Germany Italy and the Netherlands who are the main contributors to the EU budget now we have left are all struggling. The Eurozone is officially in recession, that does not signal "rapid Growth" (look that up too). The UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 last year, we are way past the pandemic problems. Exports and imports were the highest they have ever been last year. Google "UK Trade in Numbers -web version Gov . UK" for the government statistics. We are not "losing anything" the 100bn a year number is absolute nonsense, we had second highest inward investment in Europe last year just behind France, we are pretty much always at the top or second, every year. The UK is powering ahead, whereas the EU with their inward looking protectionism and overbearing regulatory demands and obsession with paperwork is destroying their business. Plus they have run out of money. They are begging for the members to give them an extra 66bn but the members don't want to pay up...Tricky... That's another fee we dodged by getting out. You need to stop getting your information from Phil, or rather trusting it. He doesn't know what he is talking about and feeds you negativity. i double check everything from official sources, I never believe news reports or stories, I see them more of a guide, and go and check on everything they say. Like for example this 4% hit to the economy predicted by the OBR that has become a trope. They didn't say that at all, it was badly reported, they never ever said that and yet it has become a "remain fact"...Much like your imaginary 100bn a year loss. Things are going great
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@MartinParnham Search for "UK trade in numbers (web version)" and pick the UK Government page where you can find all the details. Highest imports ever, and highest exports ever in 2022.
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@adamlea6339 We have loads of natural resources. We just don't want to use them. We have 300 years worth of Coal, we have oil and gas, we even have Lithium. The problem is that with all this Green Nonsense we don't want to use them as we could. The only oil the EU has is in Roumania, and it's not much. We have loads to offer. We are the sixth largest economy in the World, we just don't make much in the way of consumer goods any more. Most of what we make is used in industry or hi tech, or Pharma. We also have terrific services, like banking and insurance and other financial services. We now have more trade deals than the EU, remember when remain said it would take at least a decade to make one deal? And yet after three years we have more than the EU.
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