It has been one month since the new relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU = European Union based on free trade agreements began.
The environment in which people and goods can move freely has changed completely, causing confusion in logistics.
Britain left the EU just a year ago, and a new relationship based on free trade agreements has begun.
Customs clearance procedures have been required for both trades, and it has become necessary to declare the contents and quantity, which has become time-consuming and costly.
There is a movement among companies to review exports to the EU, of which the company that handles chemical products in the southern part of the UK has decided to deliver to EU customers not from the UK but from Poland, an EU member state. I switched to from.
In the fishery industry, there have been cases where exports to the EU have been suspended due to the time-consuming procedure and the inability to deliver fresh seafood, and in the middle of this month, fisheries workers gathered in central London on a large trailer. We demonstrated and asked the government for improvement.
The British government has emphasized that the turmoil in logistics will disappear over time, but there are concerns that it will further hurt the economy as the spread of the mutated coronavirus continues to limit corporate activities. I am.