Is this overreacting?
Discussion
I’ve got a friend who has a little website selling homemade gifts and she put this up on her Facebook page recently. I used to have a little side website myself but sold it just after Brexit. The only extra problem I had was the extra custom declaration.
Would I have faced the same as her and is it really bad enough just to give up altogether?
no it is not overreacting. As the EU brings in new regulations we will get left more and more behind.
Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
Would the cost of complying with EUSSR regulations actually be any less if the business was in the EU?
I used to be part of a firm that made 'stuff', the only way we could sell that 'stuff' was into markets exempt from all sorts of approval testing which would have cost a lot.
It's been very hard for small firms and individuals to legally sell stuff to consumers for a while.
A lot of people have been winging it.
I used to be part of a firm that made 'stuff', the only way we could sell that 'stuff' was into markets exempt from all sorts of approval testing which would have cost a lot.
It's been very hard for small firms and individuals to legally sell stuff to consumers for a while.
A lot of people have been winging it.
Randy Winkman said:
I know it now takes about 3 weeks rather than 3 days for gifts to get to my family in Sweden.
We had the same issue using royal mail for packages to Sweden. They were taking 3 weeks to get delivered.Drive a few miles down the road and mailed them with An Post in Ireland and they arrive in 4/5 days.
swisstoni said:
What would be the worst that could happen if this firm carried on doing what they were doing until there was any further clarification from the official bodies?
The stuff gets impounded by customs (on any part of it's journey) So they end up having to refund the buyer and may not get their product back. If you were a small business would you risk it?Drumroll said:
no it is not overreacting. As the EU brings in new regulations we will get left more and more behind.
Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
and you have to remember that all this extra regulation is doing wonders for the EU:Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
Europe Regulates its way to Last Place
Drahgi Report said:
America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates
This is why it should never have been put to a referendum. Complex issues like our trading relationships are best dealt with through the chamber of our elected representatives, who are elected to serve our best interests and not our opinions, rather than by shouting match replete with swathes of misinformation and emotive twaddle. Brexit was and remains a terrible idea, and terrible ideas, even ones which have an apparent small majority of a section the electorate in favour of them (we'll never know if it was a majority of the entire electorate as there wasn't 100% turn out), should not be implemented.
And here we are.
Yeah, I know. "You lost, get over it." That makes everything all right, of course. Carry on.
And here we are.
Yeah, I know. "You lost, get over it." That makes everything all right, of course. Carry on.
jesusbuiltmycar said:
Drumroll said:
no it is not overreacting. As the EU brings in new regulations we will get left more and more behind.
Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
and you have to remember that all this extra regulation is doing wonders for the EU:Whilst we were in the EU we had people who sat on the committees that oversaw the implementation of these regulations being implemented. Now we just sit on the outside having to implement whatever the EU decides.
Europe Regulates its way to Last Place
Drahgi Report said:
America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates
I see the usual brexit nonsense being pedalled. This regulation applies to those in EU as well as those wishing to sell into the EU.
The cost of compliance is the same regardless.
It is, whichever side of the channel you are, a burden on small business more so than large.
Wait until CBAM comes into effect in 2027.............
The cost of compliance is the same regardless.
It is, whichever side of the channel you are, a burden on small business more so than large.
Wait until CBAM comes into effect in 2027.............
I’ve seen that with a number of small businesses.
So much dissembling at the time of the vote. Promising less red tape when it was obvious that being outside the customs union with our main export market would increase, not decrease, red tape and make it harder to trade (making trade easier is pretty much the main reason for having a customs union).
So much dissembling at the time of the vote. Promising less red tape when it was obvious that being outside the customs union with our main export market would increase, not decrease, red tape and make it harder to trade (making trade easier is pretty much the main reason for having a customs union).
monkfish1 said:
I see the usual brexit nonsense being pedalled. This regulation applies to those in EU as well as those wishing to sell into the EU.
The cost of compliance is the same regardless.
It is, whichever side of the channel you are, a burden on small business more so than large.
Wait until CBAM comes into effect in 2027.............
Totally. Whilst we would techically have had say if we were still in, I doubt concerns about the effect on handmade trinkets from Scotland would cause the whole bill to be abandoned.The cost of compliance is the same regardless.
It is, whichever side of the channel you are, a burden on small business more so than large.
Wait until CBAM comes into effect in 2027.............
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