Before the Brexit referendum there were not that many articles about the consequences of leaving a Customs Union. One of the few articles that on beforehand pointed out some of the challenge ahead after a port-Brexit scenario, was written by my good friend Dr. Andrew Grainger.
However if there was a lack of articles about Brexit consequences in the Customs area before the referendum that has certainly been compensated afterwards. Every day The Guardian has a new article about Brexit related to movement of goods and people.
I am personally heavily engaged in the Brexit affairs related to Customs, Borders and Trade – both on the UK and EU sides. More about that shortly.
So if you want to know more about Brexit, this is the place to be. I am convinced that Brexit is the biggest change for Customs in our time. Bnver before a country has left a fully integrated Customs Union re-establishing its own Customs procedures at the border. Exiting times.
Every year, Swedcham carries out a survey among Swedish companies in Brazil in order to better understand the business climate and the direction of the business in general. This year 70 companies representing 18 different market sectors participated and answered to the 41 questions on topics such as market barriers, CSR and business forecasts.
The report was launched at Swedcham in São Paulo on Oct 5 with the presence of Ambassador Per-Arne Hjelmborn, Trade Commissioner Andreas Rentner and Honorary Consul General Renato Pacheco, forming Team Sweden in Brazil which has given strong support during the whole project.
You can read the complete report on Swedcham’s website, by clicking on this link: https://goo.gl/9N1zH6
Last year I after more than 15 years I decided to reshape my personal blog website. It was time. I tested the new format during a period of four months. I have then done an evaluation. The test was very good. In four months the blog had not only recovered the number of users but indeed the numbers were higher. This answered one of my question, is it still relevant in 2017-2018 to produce blog articles about customs, trade, borders, capacity building and reform/modernization (and football, music, film and Zlatan Ibrahimovic). My thinking was that in the last decade we have all become so much more on-line and there are so many other channels of information – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, Linkedin etc – available that a blog might be outdated. Your interest for the blog proved me wrong. So did Zlatan. There is still an interest. That is why I have decided to open the blog again. Customs, trade, borders have never been more important and interesting than now. With things like, e.g. BREXIT, e-Commerce and emerging new global value chains there on the agenda there are certainly thing to explore. So to my readers, welcome back!
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