Firms still exporting into EU despite new costs
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Businesses are still exporting successfully to mainland Europe despite the extra costs following the UK's exit from the European Union (EU), firms have told BBC Politics East.
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Although the UK left the EU in 2021, many of the new rules were delayed.
Suffolk consultant Miles Vartan said new rules brought in this year mean all goods coming into this country must now be declared immediately.
The government said businesses needed to adapt to new processes.
Mr Vartan, managing director of Vartan Compliance Consultancy, based in Felixstowe, Suffolk, said before 2022 firms could complete paperwork on consignments after they had been shipped, but this must now be done beforehand.
"That will mean vehicles not arriving on time at the manufacturing line, drivers running out of hours and perishable good being spoilt and having to be disposed of," he said.
"It will be a short-term thing for those prepared to devote some resources to it. It is going to be a longer-term problem for people who decide to ignore it.
"In July you may be subject to the physical inspection of your consignments and you'll be asked to go to that border post. If you don't go the driver or the company that owns that haulage could be fined."
UK exports to the EU in the first ten months of 2021 were down 12% on 2019 - pre-pandemic - levels. Exports from Britain to the rest of the world - non-EU countries - were down 7%.
Mark Newton, managing director of LMK Thermosafe Ltd, based in Haverhill Suffolk, said the firm was still doing strong business with mainland Europe, despite the extra costs.