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On 30/01/2021 11:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Tim Streater wrote:
On 30 Jan 2021 at 10:41:03 GMT, Andrew

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On 30/01/2021 07:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
What do you call old people in European care homes dying from lack
of
vaccine?
EUthanasia!

We are still European, just not in the EU any longer.

We knew this all along.

Going well for food and clothing importers and exporters (not).
Several cases already of seafood exports being delayed in
transit and sent to landfill.

These are issues that can be sorted out.

Err, they've had 4 years to sort things out. Just how much more time
do
you need?

Quite and only recently has the EU agreed to tariff free access.

but it seems that tariff-free only applies to wholesale import/export,

not retail import/export (and that's a normal WTO distinction not one
specific to this UK-EU deal)

That's the distinction that many small retailers aren't understanding
here


You are confusing tariffs with VAT.

you have to pay duty on personal imports worth more than 135 pounds

Which is something that Leavers always wanted to do?

Nope

It's just one of the things that Leavers don't give a **** about

How much of the average person's life evolves around importing goods from
online ROW retailers

0.001%

am I noticeably any worse-off because it's just got a bit harder to do?

Nope.

Of course, if this new rule means that retailers who pretend to be in the UK
but aren't, have now had their fraudulent business model pulled from under
them

then that I do regard as a win.

I'm sorry but creating this fictional model of a person who spends their
time importing everything that they buy from Ulan Bator, instead of the
local supermarket, now being worse off, just doesn't wash