Stuck in Kent: How Brexit Red Tape Strangled Cross-Border Trade

Bloomberg is writing in an article today, “We are starting to realize that customs agents’ capacity and capability is being extremely stretched — and this is on both sides of the border,” Heather Jones, deputy director of the government’s Border and Protocol Delivery Group, told an online question-and-answer session for businesses on Thursday.

While the government avoided significant disruption at ports in the days after Brexit — largely because firms stockpiled goods or delayed deliveries until February — the shortage of customs agents means that trade could take longer to rebound to its former levels, hampering any wider recovery in the U.K. economy.

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Source: Bloomberg/Joe Mayes