BREXIT 2021: Prepare Your Shipments
By the arrival of 2021, Brexit finally enters live and in aoperational phase. The agreement between UK and EU announced on Christmas Eve provides more clarification than trade between the two areas as from the end of the transitional period. Let us see together what the main changes affecting trade are: From January 2021, a customs declaration will be required for each consignment between the United Kingdom and the European Union. Although the trade and cooperation agreement between EU and UK talks about ‘zero tariffs’ this does not eliminate the obligation to issue a customs declaration and therefore it will be necessary to accompany the consignment by proforma or commercial invoice. The customs declaration is necessary to allow goods to cross the border, since UK will leave the single market…